Michelle Mawhiny, LPC

Michelle is credentialed as a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Colorado. She received a Masters Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and a Masters Degree in School Counseling from the University of Northern Colorado. She is an experienced grief counselor, having worked with palliative care and hospice care patients and their families, as well as bereaved family members after a loved one has passed. She is currently an elementary school counselor at a local gifted magnet school supporting general education, special education, and gifted education students and their families. Her areas of support include 504 and IEP processes and services, executive function and academics, emotional identification and regulation, ADHD and ASD, anxiety, anger management, trauma, grief, and challenging family situations (i.e., divorce, parental incarceration, foster care placement, etc.).

A Word from Michelle

I believe all children should have a safe and healing place to work through life's difficulties. Drawing from a diverse array of educational, career and life experience, my goal is to assist children in reaching their highest potential and collaborating with families to create a more harmonious and happy life together. Through humor, and sometimes silliness, I build authentic and genuine relationships with children and their families.
I have an eclectic approach to therapy centered on each child’s specific needs. Under the umbrella of Attachment Theory and Family Systems Theory, modalities used in treatment may include play therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, solution-focused brief therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, and trauma informed therapy.

Specialties:

  • Children and pre-teens

  • Anxiety

  • Grief

  • Emotion identification and regulation

  • Self-esteem and self-efficacy

  • ADHD and rejection sensitive dysphoria

  • Emotional intensities associated with gifted learners