Michelle Serda , LCSW

Michelle Serda is a Florida Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 15 years of experience providing individual and couples therapy across a range of settings, including work with the VA medical system, community programs, and private practice. She draws on this varied background to support people facing depression, anxiety, relationship strain, career transitions, and other life challenges, helping them move from overwhelm to clearer direction.

Michelle often works with women navigating perinatal and postpartum changes, parents adjusting to the demands of raising children - including those with special needs - and families negotiating the teenage years and blended-family dynamics. Her practice also addresses stress, grief, addiction, intimacy concerns, self-esteem, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and midlife or career-related shifts.

Her therapeutic style is eclectic and client-centered, meaning treatment is tailored to each person’s history, values, and strengths. She integrates evidence-based tools such as solution-focused techniques and cognitive-behavioral strategies to explore emotions and build practical coping skills. As an LCSW, she brings training in clinical social work together with a practical, strengths-based orientation.

Michelle partners with clients to set achievable goals and develop strategies for a more satisfying life. She encourages prospective clients to review profiles carefully and choose the therapist who feels like the best fit for their needs.

Evidence-Based Techniques and Online Care

Michelle Serda commonly uses cognitive-behavioral therapy, which helps people identify and shift unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression and improve daily functioning. Solution-focused therapy is another approach she employs, emphasizing clients' existing strengths and small, actionable steps to create change without lengthy exploration of problems. She also applies a client-centered, integrative stance that adapts methods to each person’s goals and life context, so techniques are practical and personally relevant.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Michelle works with clients to explore what resonates, adjusts strategies as progress unfolds, and prioritizes methods that align with a person’s needs, values, and preferences rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.

Online therapy options such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to connect from different locations. These formats provide flexibility for follow-up check-ins, timely support during transitions, and consistent access to licensed professionals and therapists without requiring travel, which can help maintain momentum toward therapeutic goals.