Michelle Wildy, LCSW-C

Michelle Wildy is a licensed clinical social worker with 33 years of experience. She helps people handle depression, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, and major life changes. Her approach is practical and direct, focused on what someone needs day to day.

Michelle frames sessions around clear communication and building coping skills. She aims to create a space where clients can talk honestly about shame, isolation, or stress without feeling judged. The work often includes learning new ways to manage emotions and improving how people relate to others.

Her background includes long experience with caregiver stress, cancer-related concerns, adoption and foster care issues, and aging and geriatric issues. She also addresses attachment questions, codependency, commitment worries, and challenges that come with blended families. Michelle draws on many evidence-based methods to match each person’s needs.

Sessions focus on practical steps clients can try between meetings. Michelle encourages small changes that add up over time, like new communication habits or coping tools for anxiety and grief. She also helps when life transitions create uncertainty, such as retirement, health changes, or shifting family roles.

People who prefer straightforward, experienced guidance may find her style a good fit. Prospective clients in Maryland can learn more by using the site’s Start Therapy process and completing the short matching questionnaire to set up a first session.

How evidence-based approaches guide online therapy

Michelle draws on well-known, evidence-based techniques to help people manage symptoms and build skills. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical behavior changes; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy encourages people to clarify values and make small actions that align with those values while learning to sit with difficult feelings; it can be useful for life transitions and chronic stress.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Michelle works with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. Clients and therapist adjust methods over time as progress and challenges emerge.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online work can still make therapy more convenient by fitting sessions into busy schedules, reducing travel time, and allowing shorter check-ins when needed. It also makes it easier to continue support through life changes such as relocation or shifts in caregiving responsibilities.