Michelle St. Raymond, LCSW

Michelle St. Raymond is a licensed clinical social worker with 31 years of experience in Louisiana. She brings a heart-centered perspective to therapy and focuses on helping people navigate big life shifts. Her work often centers on trauma recovery, relationships, and transitions such as aging, career changes, and health challenges.

She uses practical approaches to help people notice what keeps them stuck and try different ways of responding. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is one tool she uses to change unhelpful thinking patterns. She also draws on attachment-focused ideas and mindfulness to support emotional awareness and self-acceptance.

Sessions emphasize clear goals and doable actions. Michelle talks with clients about values, strengths, and small steps that match their daily lives. She encourages body awareness alongside thought work to strengthen the mind-body connection during change.

Her background includes long experience with trauma, family-of-origin patterns, and grief. That experience informs how she helps people rebuild after loss, addiction, or major role changes like caregiving and retirement.

Michelle works collaboratively and centers the client as the leader of change. She helps people define what matters, set realistic goals, and practice new skills between sessions. The aim is steady progress toward a life that feels more connected to what the person truly wants.

Approach and online therapy options that fit your life

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice painful thoughts without letting them decide actions and to choose steps that align with personal values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing concrete skills to change behavior and mood; it is often used for anxiety, insomnia, and negative self-talk. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they affect current connections, which can help with intimacy, communication, and caregiving stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick and adapt methods based on goals, preferences, and what shows up in sessions. That might mean trying a behavioral exercise one week and shifting to mindfulness or attachment-focused conversation the next.

The original biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It can also make it simpler to continue care through job changes, moves, or times when leaving home is difficult. Licensed professionals often adapt materials and exercises so work between sessions matches everyday life.