Michelle LeClear-Dozier, LCSW

Michelle LeClear-Dozier is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida with 35 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, or major life changes. Her style is straightforward and caring, focused on building workable coping skills. She works in English and supports a wide range of concerns related to mood, relationships, parenting, and trauma.

Michelle uses clear, practical methods to help people name what feels hard and try small changes that can make daily life easier. She draws on cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and practice new responses. She also uses a client-centered approach that prioritizes the person’s own goals and pace.

Her background includes long experience helping people with family problems, parenting strain, panic and social anxiety, grief, and women's issues. Michelle emphasizes problem-solving, rebuilding relationship skills, and strengthening coping strategies. She aims to make sessions a place for steady progress rather than sudden fixes.

In sessions she helps clients identify life stressors, set realistic goals, and develop strengths they can use outside of therapy. She also addresses trauma and abuse with a supportive stance and practical steps toward recovery. The work is collaborative and grounded in everyday solutions.

Michelle holds the credential LCSW, which is Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Her approach is warm and goal-focused, helping people move forward at a manageable pace.

How her approaches fit online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, respect, and following the client’s goals. It involves the therapist being empathic and responsive while helping people find their own solutions, which can help with relationship, parenting, and self-esteem concerns.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical exercises and small behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety, panic, depressive thinking, and patterns that can feed addictions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and together decide which mix of client-centered and CBT methods to use. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by removing travel time and allowing appointments from different everyday locations. It can also allow shorter check-ins when a quick review is helpful, or conversations that focus on practice exercises between in-person meetings. Confirm the current session options before booking to make sure the offered formats match what you need.