Michelle Nietert, M.A.
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My approach is direct, genuine, and based on our profession’s best practices. My ideal clients desire change and are committed making changes outside of sessions to create lasting improvement. The majority of my clients are executives and entrepreneurs facing life transitions or relational difficulties. I also work with a large numbers of moms juggling kids and additional demands, trying to balance work success and home relationships, along with homeschool families, and numerous teens. As the previous crisis counselor for a large school district, I understand how difficult life can be for students and have provided them with hope and quality interventions for decades. Many are gifted or desire to be more efficient at managing struggles with self confidence, ADHD, and anxiety.
I offer face to face counseling and Telehealth sessions to accommodate busy schedules and clients who don't reside in the DFW area. A large number of my clients choose coaching as they do not wish to receive a diagnosis, are high functioning, and have already address past issues. They come to coaching seeking encouragement, accountability, and at times additional resources and strategic direction. There a times high achieving leaders in industries such as healthcare, education, ministry, engineering, law, technology, sales, and marketing need to reserve a time and space in their lives to evaluate their priorities and manage high productivity demands along with managing emotions and fulfilling their commitment to live meaningful lives with the people they love.Treatment approaches include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, EMDR, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Emotion Focused Counseling, Nutrition and Mental Health, Brain Health Coaching, Polyvagal Theory, Trust Based Relational Intervention and extensive training in Executive Skill Building. Please read below regarding my relational and couples counseling training.
I love working with clients seeking a faith based approach to change. They want to involve God in their lives and our discussions as they evolve and heal. The majority of my clients come from word of mouth referrals, hearing me speak at conferences or on the Raising Mentally Healthy Kids Podcast, or by doing their research looking for a highly qualified and knowledgeable professional.Visit www.yourmentalhealthcoach.com.to locate my books including Make Up Your Mind, Managing Your Emojis, God, I Feel Sad and Scared part of the Bringing Big Emotions to a Bigger God Series and Loved and Cherished.
Currently, I have limited daytime openings available. Session fees are $175 per session for counseling and coaching.
My treatment specialties are:
I offer face to face counseling and Telehealth sessions to accommodate busy schedules and clients who don't reside in the DFW area. A large number of my clients choose coaching as they do not wish to receive a diagnosis, are high functioning, and have already address past issues. They come to coaching seeking encouragement, accountability, and at times additional resources and strategic direction. There a times high achieving leaders in industries such as healthcare, education, ministry, engineering, law, technology, sales, and marketing need to reserve a time and space in their lives to evaluate their priorities and manage high productivity demands along with managing emotions and fulfilling their commitment to live meaningful lives with the people they love.Treatment approaches include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, EMDR, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Emotion Focused Counseling, Nutrition and Mental Health, Brain Health Coaching, Polyvagal Theory, Trust Based Relational Intervention and extensive training in Executive Skill Building. Please read below regarding my relational and couples counseling training.
I love working with clients seeking a faith based approach to change. They want to involve God in their lives and our discussions as they evolve and heal. The majority of my clients come from word of mouth referrals, hearing me speak at conferences or on the Raising Mentally Healthy Kids Podcast, or by doing their research looking for a highly qualified and knowledgeable professional.Visit www.yourmentalhealthcoach.com.to locate my books including Make Up Your Mind, Managing Your Emojis, God, I Feel Sad and Scared part of the Bringing Big Emotions to a Bigger God Series and Loved and Cherished.
Currently, I have limited daytime openings available. Session fees are $175 per session for counseling and coaching.
My treatment specialties are:
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*40-50 year old highly educated successful adults struggling with redefining themselves, feeling lost, and considering major relationship and career changes
*Couples Counseling including sex therapy issue (trained by leaders such as John Gottman and Harville Hendrix and Helen Hunt) *College aged students needing a wise adult to listen, understand, and walk with them through breakups, academic challenges, and transitions towards independent adulthood. |
*Gifted students struggling to achieve or become anxious and overwhelmed
*ADHD in adolescents and adults *Adolescents Dealing with Depression, Anxiety, Self Harm, Eating Disorders and Addiction *Widows and Widowers experiencing Traumatic Loss of a Spouse *Postpartum Depression, Postpartum Anxiety and Postpartum Psychosis |
My experience and training also includes working with issues such as depression, anxiety, Substance Use/Chemical Dependency, Eating Disorders, Self Harm, PTSD, Marital Affairs, Betrayal Trauma, OCD, Rape, Grief/Loss, Divorce, and childhood physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. For the last decade, I have become a community expert in treating families who have experienced the loss of a child or children with severe medical issues including cancer but have caseload limits in this area as well as traumatic/sudden loss of a spouse/parent.
I usually start clients with weekly sessions but as they begin to make the changes that make their lives better, we quickly progress to biweekly and then monthly session. I have extensive training at the doctoral level in Biblical counseling and provide this upon request.
Counseling and Coaching Training
Having been a Licensed Professional Counselor since 1999, Michelle is the founder and owner of Community Counseling Associates and has supervised and trained over 50 counselors since 2005. She is considered a leader in the area of solution focused counseling in Collin County and is sought after by mental health professionals and organizations for both consultation and training. She has also been retained by liability insurance companies as well as local and national law firms as a recognized expert in the area of mental health treatment and documentation.
Her counseling training includes not only individuals and couples, but also art, play, and family therapy. Michelle has extensive training in the psychotherapy profession by attending well beyond the required continuing education in her field, providing training opportunities for helping professionals in the state of Texas, and reading extensively and continuously in her field. She has a passion for using the most up to date literature and research to provide the best outcome-based results for her
clients. When performing premarital counseling she uses the PREPARE as an assessment device as she holds a license as a Trainer for the Prepare/Enrich with Life Innovations. She is a Gottman trained marriage counselor and has met all the training requirements to be a Gottman Certified Educator. She has also trained extensively with Harville Hendrix and Helen Hunt regarding Safe Conversations and using Imago Therapy approaches.
At the beginning of her career, she led groups for Mungadze Association at Cedars Hospital for victims of childhood trauma including sexual and ritual abuse. At this inpatient facility, she worked throughout her career with women suffering from PTSD, self harm, eating disorders, depression, anxiety, and self hatred.
Michelle has indepth indirect (Landreth) and direct (Gil, TLC, etc) play therapy training through conferences, book studies, and peer supervision. She incorporates games, her IPad, bibliotherapy and a HeartMath biofeedback device for stress and anger management. A certified School Specialist in Trauma and Loss in Children, Michelle has worked with families dealing with sudden grief and/or the CPS system. As a previous district crisis counselor with Safe and Drug Free Schools, Michelle has also worked extensively with suburban families dealing with drug exploration, dependence, abuse, addiction, and trains all her staff in Relapse Prevention Training.She also has training and qualifies for Love and Limits certification with the Savannah Institute in Parenting with Love and Limits and has developed a strategic family therapy model for the center including creation of a mission statement, family meetings, and structure which she utilizes regularly in her own family as well as empowering others to begin this journey.
Michelle’s coaching training includes a variety of classes and conferences focusing on lifestyle, time, and stress management, effective business practices, career transition, and leadership development. She is also a Certified Personality Trainer with Class Services. She occasionally employs personal and business coaches in order to maintain her skills and how own continued life development and the development of Community Counseling Associates.
During her single years, she worked extensively with Fun Ed and Equally Yoked Singles and often works with singles and those newly single on becoming a healthy person and finding a health partner by dating well and creating Boundaries in Dating (Cloud/Townsend). She also provides coaching for online dating and profiles.
Education and Vocational History
Michelle has communicated practical solutions for today’s problems in the office, community, and at conferences across the country for over a decade. She earned a B.S. in Education from Baylor University and a M.A. in Counseling from Amberton University. She also received theology training from Criswell Bible College, Dallas Theological Seminary, and Trinity College and Theological Seminary. Current and previous organizational affiliations include the International Coaching Federation, American Association of Christian Counselors, American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, the AFCC and Texas Counseling Association.
Upon graduating from Baylor, Michelle taught English, reading, journalism, and English as a Second Language to inner-city and suburban high school students. She also worked as a professional nanny while pursuing her counseling license and has studied parenting principles before even becoming a parent. She uses both Love and Logic and 1,2,3 Magic principles in her practice and has been trained by the Savannah Family Institute in Parenting with Love and Limits.
Michelle attended seminary both as a master's level student and pursued a partial doctorate in Biblical Counseling and Women's Studies. She has served as church staff in positions ministering specifically to women, children, and adolescents. She previously wrote and directed life-enrichment seminars for The Road Adventure and was previously the Director of Counseling for The Bridge Counseling Center. She has worked as a school counselor in both middle and high school settings and initiated the original the Crisis and Support Program for Allen ISD under the Safe and Drug Free Schools grant. Michelle has been a professor at the undergraduate level teaching Marriage and Family Counseling at Dallas Christian College and designing a Trauma Informed Coaching Course for students entering care-giving professions.
Personal Statement
I have a passion for helping people change and believe that we all need encouragement and accountability to live our best lives. I love my job and consider it a privilege to share with my clients’ in their journey toward hope, healing, and change. I embrace the definition of insanity is doing the same thing, the same way, with the same people and expecting different results. There are solutions for life and that’s where I encourage clients to focus. I myself have worked with some of the industries top coaches continuing to learn, grow, receiive encouragement, and be held accountable at managing life demands within a healthy capacity.
I come from a family where ministry is a way of life. My parents worked for Mission Aviation Fellowship and several family members are Senior Pastors of community
churches. My sister, Melissa Spoelstra is a nationally known speaker, Parent Life author and the author of Jeremiah: Daring to Hope, Joseph: The Journey to Forgiveness and soon to be published study on 1 Corinthians. My husband Drew holds a Ministry and Leadership degree from Dallas Christian College and is consultant for the Navigant Consulting, a healthcare management firm. We have two children whom we are committed to training in a way that they won’t depart by providing them with both structure and nurture.
I work hard at striving to live a life based on principles and priorities. A lifetime member of Weight Watchers and active church leader, I am devoted to continued life growth as a person and professional. I also strive to practice daily contentment and gratitude for the life I live. I love discipleship and have been active in both participating in and leading local church bible studies as well as BSF. I also count it a privilege to have been mentored both personally and afar from some great leaders such as Reggie McNeal, Louie Giglio, and John Townsend and Henry Cloud. . I would probably confess to being a conference junkie and love engaging in direct learning at professional conferences as well as spiritual leadership development weekends where I've now had the priviedge of serving on the faculty as a breakout leader and keynote speaker.
I usually start clients with weekly sessions but as they begin to make the changes that make their lives better, we quickly progress to biweekly and then monthly session. I have extensive training at the doctoral level in Biblical counseling and provide this upon request.
Counseling and Coaching Training
Having been a Licensed Professional Counselor since 1999, Michelle is the founder and owner of Community Counseling Associates and has supervised and trained over 50 counselors since 2005. She is considered a leader in the area of solution focused counseling in Collin County and is sought after by mental health professionals and organizations for both consultation and training. She has also been retained by liability insurance companies as well as local and national law firms as a recognized expert in the area of mental health treatment and documentation.
Her counseling training includes not only individuals and couples, but also art, play, and family therapy. Michelle has extensive training in the psychotherapy profession by attending well beyond the required continuing education in her field, providing training opportunities for helping professionals in the state of Texas, and reading extensively and continuously in her field. She has a passion for using the most up to date literature and research to provide the best outcome-based results for her
clients. When performing premarital counseling she uses the PREPARE as an assessment device as she holds a license as a Trainer for the Prepare/Enrich with Life Innovations. She is a Gottman trained marriage counselor and has met all the training requirements to be a Gottman Certified Educator. She has also trained extensively with Harville Hendrix and Helen Hunt regarding Safe Conversations and using Imago Therapy approaches.
At the beginning of her career, she led groups for Mungadze Association at Cedars Hospital for victims of childhood trauma including sexual and ritual abuse. At this inpatient facility, she worked throughout her career with women suffering from PTSD, self harm, eating disorders, depression, anxiety, and self hatred.
Michelle has indepth indirect (Landreth) and direct (Gil, TLC, etc) play therapy training through conferences, book studies, and peer supervision. She incorporates games, her IPad, bibliotherapy and a HeartMath biofeedback device for stress and anger management. A certified School Specialist in Trauma and Loss in Children, Michelle has worked with families dealing with sudden grief and/or the CPS system. As a previous district crisis counselor with Safe and Drug Free Schools, Michelle has also worked extensively with suburban families dealing with drug exploration, dependence, abuse, addiction, and trains all her staff in Relapse Prevention Training.She also has training and qualifies for Love and Limits certification with the Savannah Institute in Parenting with Love and Limits and has developed a strategic family therapy model for the center including creation of a mission statement, family meetings, and structure which she utilizes regularly in her own family as well as empowering others to begin this journey.
Michelle’s coaching training includes a variety of classes and conferences focusing on lifestyle, time, and stress management, effective business practices, career transition, and leadership development. She is also a Certified Personality Trainer with Class Services. She occasionally employs personal and business coaches in order to maintain her skills and how own continued life development and the development of Community Counseling Associates.
During her single years, she worked extensively with Fun Ed and Equally Yoked Singles and often works with singles and those newly single on becoming a healthy person and finding a health partner by dating well and creating Boundaries in Dating (Cloud/Townsend). She also provides coaching for online dating and profiles.
Education and Vocational History
Michelle has communicated practical solutions for today’s problems in the office, community, and at conferences across the country for over a decade. She earned a B.S. in Education from Baylor University and a M.A. in Counseling from Amberton University. She also received theology training from Criswell Bible College, Dallas Theological Seminary, and Trinity College and Theological Seminary. Current and previous organizational affiliations include the International Coaching Federation, American Association of Christian Counselors, American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, the AFCC and Texas Counseling Association.
Upon graduating from Baylor, Michelle taught English, reading, journalism, and English as a Second Language to inner-city and suburban high school students. She also worked as a professional nanny while pursuing her counseling license and has studied parenting principles before even becoming a parent. She uses both Love and Logic and 1,2,3 Magic principles in her practice and has been trained by the Savannah Family Institute in Parenting with Love and Limits.
Michelle attended seminary both as a master's level student and pursued a partial doctorate in Biblical Counseling and Women's Studies. She has served as church staff in positions ministering specifically to women, children, and adolescents. She previously wrote and directed life-enrichment seminars for The Road Adventure and was previously the Director of Counseling for The Bridge Counseling Center. She has worked as a school counselor in both middle and high school settings and initiated the original the Crisis and Support Program for Allen ISD under the Safe and Drug Free Schools grant. Michelle has been a professor at the undergraduate level teaching Marriage and Family Counseling at Dallas Christian College and designing a Trauma Informed Coaching Course for students entering care-giving professions.
Personal Statement
I have a passion for helping people change and believe that we all need encouragement and accountability to live our best lives. I love my job and consider it a privilege to share with my clients’ in their journey toward hope, healing, and change. I embrace the definition of insanity is doing the same thing, the same way, with the same people and expecting different results. There are solutions for life and that’s where I encourage clients to focus. I myself have worked with some of the industries top coaches continuing to learn, grow, receiive encouragement, and be held accountable at managing life demands within a healthy capacity.
I come from a family where ministry is a way of life. My parents worked for Mission Aviation Fellowship and several family members are Senior Pastors of community
churches. My sister, Melissa Spoelstra is a nationally known speaker, Parent Life author and the author of Jeremiah: Daring to Hope, Joseph: The Journey to Forgiveness and soon to be published study on 1 Corinthians. My husband Drew holds a Ministry and Leadership degree from Dallas Christian College and is consultant for the Navigant Consulting, a healthcare management firm. We have two children whom we are committed to training in a way that they won’t depart by providing them with both structure and nurture.
I work hard at striving to live a life based on principles and priorities. A lifetime member of Weight Watchers and active church leader, I am devoted to continued life growth as a person and professional. I also strive to practice daily contentment and gratitude for the life I live. I love discipleship and have been active in both participating in and leading local church bible studies as well as BSF. I also count it a privilege to have been mentored both personally and afar from some great leaders such as Reggie McNeal, Louie Giglio, and John Townsend and Henry Cloud. . I would probably confess to being a conference junkie and love engaging in direct learning at professional conferences as well as spiritual leadership development weekends where I've now had the priviedge of serving on the faculty as a breakout leader and keynote speaker.
