Michelle Serda , LCSW

Michelle Serda is a Florida Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 15 years of clinical experience supporting individuals and couples through stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, grief, addiction, and life transitions. She has worked in the VA medical system, community settings, and private practice, developing a broad base of experience with mood disorders, perinatal and postpartum concerns, career shifts, and complex family dynamics.

As both a therapist and a mother of three, she brings professional training and personal insight to issues such as the transition to parenthood, raising children with special needs, and navigating the teenage years. Her work often centers on practical strategies to manage mood and anxiety, improve communication, address intimacy and relationship patterns, and move through major life changes with greater clarity and resilience.

Michelle uses a client-centered, eclectic approach that draws from evidence-based therapeutic techniques. She commonly integrates cognitive-behavioral methods and solution-focused interventions with other tailored strategies to match each person’s history, values, and goals. She emphasizes collaboration, skill-building, and measurable goals to support meaningful progress. Michelle is not currently accepting new clients.

Evidence-Based Approaches for Online Support

Michelle Serda commonly uses cognitive-behavioral therapy, which helps people identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. She also draws on solution-focused techniques that emphasize setting practical goals and building on existing strengths to create forward movement in relationships, parenting, and life transitions. These approaches are applied in straightforward, skills-based ways to address issues such as stress, depression, communication problems, and coping with change.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the process, and Michelle works collaboratively with each person to determine what fits best. She tailors methods to the client’s needs, preferences, and goals, and adjusts the plan as progress is made so therapy remains practical and relevant.

Online therapy options such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to access support from home or during transitions. These formats offer flexibility in timing and communication style, allowing clients to choose the ways of working that feel most comfortable while engaging with licensed professionals and therapists who focus on achievable changes.