- Self esteem focus
- Support for relationships
- Young adult issues
About Michelle
Michelle Haptonstall is a licensed professional counselor with 15 years of experience in Colorado. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, or big life changes. Her work often centers on relationship concerns, communication struggles, and the emotional effects of separation or loss.
Michelle spent years working in school and community settings before moving into her current practice. She focuses on young adult issues and supports people who are facing abandonment wounds, attachment questions, guilt, shame, loneliness, or struggles with self-harm and self-love. She is attentive to diverse identities and offers a non-religious therapeutic space with sensitivity to LGBTQ+ experiences.
In sessions she aims to make the emotional load easier to name and manage. Conversations cover practical ways to cope, rebuild connection, and strengthen how someone talks to themselves. She works at a pace each person can handle and helps set clear, realistic goals for change.
Clients can expect help sorting through relationship patterns, improving communication, and navigating transitions such as divorce or other major life shifts. Michelle uses plain language and direct feedback so people can try new approaches between sessions. Her intention is to support healthier self-esteem and more resilient coping over time.
Michelle tailors her work to each person rather than offering one fixed method. She partners with people to find what fits their needs and life circumstances, helping them take practical steps toward better emotional balance.
Michelle spent years working in school and community settings before moving into her current practice. She focuses on young adult issues and supports people who are facing abandonment wounds, attachment questions, guilt, shame, loneliness, or struggles with self-harm and self-love. She is attentive to diverse identities and offers a non-religious therapeutic space with sensitivity to LGBTQ+ experiences.
In sessions she aims to make the emotional load easier to name and manage. Conversations cover practical ways to cope, rebuild connection, and strengthen how someone talks to themselves. She works at a pace each person can handle and helps set clear, realistic goals for change.
Clients can expect help sorting through relationship patterns, improving communication, and navigating transitions such as divorce or other major life shifts. Michelle uses plain language and direct feedback so people can try new approaches between sessions. Her intention is to support healthier self-esteem and more resilient coping over time.
Michelle tailors her work to each person rather than offering one fixed method. She partners with people to find what fits their needs and life circumstances, helping them take practical steps toward better emotional balance.