Michelle Nietert, M.A, LPC-S

Michelle Nietert, M.A, LPC-S

Having been a Licensed Professional Counselor since 1999, Michelle is the founder and owner of Community Counseling Associates and has supervised and trained numerous future 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.