Michele Bowen, LCSW, LMSW

Michele Bowen is a licensed social worker practicing in Indiana and Michigan with 20 years of professional experience. She holds LCSW and LMSW credentials - LCSW denotes a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and LMSW denotes a Licensed Master Social Worker - and brings specialized certifications including EMDR certification, ACCTS (Advanced Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist), and CAADC (Certified Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor). Her work focuses on stress and anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and building self-esteem.

Michele draws on a broad clinical toolkit to tailor treatment to each person she serves, integrating evidence-based methods with a holistic perspective that attends to mind, body, and spirit. She prioritizes creating an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be explored safely, and she partners with people to meet them where they are and pursue meaningful goals. Michele emphasizes resilience and recovery, building on personal strengths while using compassionate, ethical practice.

Her technical skills include Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), co-occurring disorder treatment, Internal Family Systems work adapted for EMDR therapists, Motivational Interviewing, and TF-CBT, with experience addressing complex trauma and dissociation. Michele also incorporates somatic techniques, meditation, mindfulness, and light yoga for clients who are comfortable with those approaches, and she models an intentional, holistic approach to self-care in her own life.