Michelle Grimmer MS LPC-S NCC
Relationship-focused counselor helping people heal
LPC Oklahoma
- Experience
- 11 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Relationship, Trauma and abuse, Intimacy-related issues
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Attachment-Based Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Michelle
Michelle Grimmer is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Oklahoma with 11 years of clinical experience. She focuses on guiding people through difficult life changes, relationship challenges, and trauma recovery.
Background and approach
Michelle emphasizes clear communication, stronger self-worth, and practical steps clients can take every day. She uses a mix of approaches to fit each person’s needs rather than one fixed method.
That can mean working on how attachment styles shape relationships, using skills to change unhelpful thoughts and reactions, or helping people express emotions more openly. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with attention to what feels useful in real life.
Michelle often helps people who struggle with anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and stress from caregiving or work. She also supports those dealing with addiction, grief, body image concerns, sleeping problems, and parenting stress.
Relationship and intimacy issues, codependency, and commitment worries are other common topics she addresses. Her work includes addressing the effects of trauma, abandonment, and attachment wounds.
Michelle can help people rebuild trust in themselves and others and develop healthier ways of connecting. She also works with clients facing chronic illness, chronic pain, or the fallout from natural or human-caused disasters.
Sessions are practical and person-centered. Michelle aims to reduce shame, build coping skills, and help clients name clear next steps.
She offers a steady, respectful presence while people practice new ways of relating and living.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Michelle often combines the Gottman Method with Attachment-Based and Client-Centered approaches to address relationship and emotional concerns. The Gottman Method focuses on improving everyday interactions and communication patterns to reduce conflict and increase closeness. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and helps people identify and change unhelpful patterns. Client-Centered Therapy centers the session on the person’s experience, offering acceptance and reflection so clients can find their own solutions.Deciding which approach to use is a joint effort. Michelle works with each person to identify goals, try a few techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That collaborative process means the therapy style can shift over time as needs and goals evolve.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is useful when visual cues matter, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping momentum in the work.
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Experience
11+ years
Licensed in
Oklahoma
Languages
English