Michelle Gossard, LMHC

Michelle Gossard is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Iowa with more than 15 years of clinical experience. She has worked in both civilian clinical settings and military environments, bringing practical tools and a collaborative stance to address a wide range of concerns. Michelle emphasizes that each person is the expert on their life and partners with clients to identify strengths, develop coping skills, and build concrete strategies for managing thoughts, feelings, and reactions.

Her work often focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, anger, self-esteem, grief, parenting challenges, career concerns, and ADHD, with additional attention to issues such as aging and geriatric concerns, commitment and control issues, communication problems, jealousy, life purpose, midlife transitions, panic disorder, perinatal mood concerns, seasonal mood changes, social anxiety, women's issues, and young adult concerns. She has experience helping people with anger management, negative self-talk, low self-worth, depression, anxiety, stress, and pre- and post-deployment difficulties.

Michelle uses client-centered methods alongside cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and solution-focused techniques to tailor sessions to each person’s needs. As a military spouse and mother of four active children, she brings personal insight into family and military-related stressors while maintaining a respectful, accountable approach that supports clients in making meaningful changes.