Michelle Manning (she/her)

LPC, NCC
Accepting Clients

Therapy for anxious, overthinking, neurodivergent people who are tired of holding it all together alone.

Licensed Professional Counselor in Parker, CO

Services
  • Individual
  • Couples
  • Adolescent/Teen
  • Group

About My Clients

I work best with thoughtful, sensitive, high-responsibility people who feel anxious, overwhelmed, burned out, or stuck in patterns they can’t untangle. Many of my clients are neurodivergent and navigating ADHD, OCD/intrusive thoughts, emotional sensitivity, people-pleasing, relationship wounds, or emotional abuse. My clients usually want more than a therapist who just nods; they want warmth, insight, honesty, humor, and tools that translate into real life.

My Background and Approach

My style is warm, collaborative, direct, practical, and often gently humorous. I want therapy to feel deeply validating, but also useful outside the therapy room. I draw from CBT, ACT, Internal Family Systems, Schema Therapy, mindfulness, trauma-informed therapy, and neuroscience-informed psychoeducation. Together, we may explore how past experiences shaped your current patterns, how your nervous system responds to stress, how ADHD or OCD may be affecting daily life, and how old survival strategies may now be getting in the way of the relationships and life you want. I am not a blank-wall therapist. I bring curiosity, compassion, humor, psychoeducation, and honest reflection into the room. Sometimes healing needs tenderness; sometimes it needs clear language; and sometimes it needs the kind of well-timed humor that helps you breathe again without pretending the hard things aren’t hard.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I believe therapy should be a space where people do not have to perform, shrink, or pretend everything is fine. I care deeply about helping people untangle the messages they absorbed from families, relationships, culture, and systems that taught them to doubt themselves, over-function, silence their needs, or measure their worth by productivity, appearance, caretaking, or achievement. My work is grounded in the belief that people are not broken; they adapted. Healing is often about understanding those adaptations with compassion, then choosing which ones still serve you and which ones are ready to change. I value authenticity, emotional honesty, feminism, neurodivergent-affirming care, LGBTQ+ affirming care, curiosity, humor, and the messy, brave process of becoming more fully yourself. I also believe humor can be sacred — not as avoidance, but as a way to bring light, breath, and humanity into dark places.

Techniques I Use

Specialties
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) Schema Therapy
Other Techniques
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • Attachment Theory
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Couples Counseling
  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Existential Therapy
  • Feminist Therapy
  • Gottman Method Couples Therapy
  • Humanistic Therapy
  • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
  • Nonviolent Communication
  • Internal Family Systems
  • Trauma Therapy
  • Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB)
  • Clinical Neuropsychology
  • Schema Therapy

Issues I Treat

Specialties
ADHD Therapists Anxiety Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Other Issues
  • Abuse
  • ADHD Therapists
  • Aging Concerns
  • Anxiety
  • Attachment
  • Burnout
  • Depression
  • Divorce
  • Gender Identity Therapy
  • Grief or Loss
  • Immigration/Acculturation
  • Marriage Counseling
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Relationship Issues
  • Women's Issues
I offer online counseling in the following states:
I have experience with the following
  • Christianity

At A Glance

  • Experience: 3 years of practice
  • Rate: $175 - 300/session

Info

Email Michelle
19590 E. Mainstreet
Suite 202
Parker, CO 80138

Reach out to Michelle