- Anxiety and phobia focus
- Attachment based work
- Cognitive behavioral techniques
About Michelle
Michelle Hoff is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with ten years of experience in mental health. She practices in Nebraska and lists stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns among her main focus areas. Michelle also notes experience with trauma, addictions, grief, parenting, anger, self-esteem, bipolar and depression.
Michelle works one person at a time to address problems that affect daily life. She talks through relationship patterns, communication problems, and attachment issues. She helps people who struggle with panic attacks, isolation, or the fallout from divorce, domestic violence, or substance use.
Her way of working blends several practical approaches. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify thinking and behavior patterns. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current reactions. Mindfulness strategies are used to help people notice stress responses and build small coping skills.
Michelle also integrates client-centered and emotionally focused methods to guide conversations about closeness, boundaries, and intimacy-related issues. She has additional focus on adoption and foster care concerns, blended family stress, codependency, guilt and shame, and veteran and armed forces issues.
Sessions include straightforward goal setting and check-ins on progress. Costs vary with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, clients select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
How her approaches translate to online work
Michelle commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in sessions. CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and changing small behaviors that keep anxiety and panic going. It is useful for stress, panic attacks, and patterns that create relationship strain. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they show up now, helping people notice triggers in intimacy and family interactions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to the client’s concerns and goals, try methods that fit, and adjust plans based on what helps in real life. That means sessions may blend CBT, attachment ideas, emotionally-focused conversations and mindfulness exercises depending on needs and preferences.
Session formats are not specified here, so confirm current online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a weeknight or a lunch break, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets therapists use tools like mindfulness exercises, thought records, and guided conversations to practice skills between meetings.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Also works with
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
10+ years
Listed in
Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, plus trauma, addiction, grief, parenting, anger, self-esteem, bipolar and depression.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her style mixes client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral, attachment-based, emotionally-focused and mindfulness methods to address thoughts, feelings and relationship patterns.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Michelle has worked in the mental health field for ten years and has been doing clinical work since 2017.
What credentials and locations apply?
She is an LMFT and practices in Nebraska with licensure noted in Illinois and Iowa as IL LMFT and IA LMFT.
What languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she work with international clients?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How do session costs work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin if I want to try sessions?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.