Michele Bowen, LMSW, LCSW

Michele Bowen is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Michigan with 20 years of professional experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, and self-esteem concerns. Michele also works with issues such as attachment and abandonment, codependency, dissociation, and chronic illness-related stress.

Her background spans behavioral healthcare since 1994 in multiple roles. She is licensed in Indiana and Michigan and brings long-term experience treating trauma and co-occurring conditions. Michele uses approaches like EMDR, DBT, CBT, mindfulness, and attachment-based work in clinical practice.

In sessions she talks through what is happening now and how patterns developed. Michele often helps people notice how people-pleasing, avoidance, or caretaking affect mood and relationships. She blends practical skills training with trauma-focused techniques to address both symptoms and underlying patterns.

Michele emphasizes working step by step on skills such as emotional regulation, boundary setting, and distress tolerance. She incorporates mindfulness and somatic practices like gentle breath work when clients want them. Motivational interviewing is used to support changes around substance use and other behaviors.

Her style is straightforward and process-focused. Michele helps people clarify realistic goals, practice new responses, and track progress. She asks clients to try skills between sessions and adjusts what they practice based on how it goes.

People who struggle with putting others first often come for help with setting limits, reducing anxiety, and managing grief or trauma reminders. Prospective clients are invited to complete the intake steps and schedule an initial session to begin clarifying goals.

How Michele’s approaches translate to online work