Michele Lewis, LISW, LCSW

Michele Lewis is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of experience supporting people through trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, and major life transitions. She holds LISW and LCSW clinical licenses and is licensed to practice in Missouri and Iowa, and she has additional certifications as a clinical tele-mental health provider, clinical trauma professional, and grief professional. Her background includes extensive work in geriatrics and caregiver support, and she draws on that experience to help adult children cope with caregiver stress and the complex emotions that accompany changes in a parent’s mobility or cognition.

Michele works with younger clients who are healing from past trauma and seeking to express their truest selves, and she helps older adults process feelings about aging with dignity. Her training in grief allows her to guide people of all ages through sadness, emptiness, and the complicated effects of loss or upsetting life changes. She blends evidence-informed methods into a warm, accepting practice where therapy becomes a space for self-discovery rather than judgment.

Using a mix of approaches, Michele focuses on skill building and emotional expression so people can reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety, strengthen relationships, and pursue meaningful goals. Her toolbox includes cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness-based stress management, positive psychology ideas, empowerment work, and strategies that integrate mind, body, and spirit for mood and anxiety management and improved work-life balance. She offers evening and weekend appointments to accommodate busy schedules. Michele holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Kansas and a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from William Jewell College, and she looks forward to beginning collaborative work with new clients.