Lake St. Louis, MO
Lake St. Louis
1310 HRC Plaza Drive
Lake St. Louis, MO 63367
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Lake St. Louis, MO 63367
Michelle Koerner
LPC
Therapist
About Michelle Koerner
Michelle is a compassionate therapist who believes acceptance and empathy are at the center of every therapeutic relationship. She puts an emphasis on meeting each client where they are at, creating a safe and supportive environment where clients feel safe sharing their thoughts, feelings, and concerns.
Prior to joining Ellie Mental Health, Michelle has worked in an acute setting with adults and adolescents that struggle with severe mental health issues and/or suffer from the disease of addiction. She has also worked in an outpatient setting with adults and adolscents to develop new insights, skills and solutions. Prior to that, she spent several years in residential treatment where she worked with children and adolescents and their families. She mainly utilizes techniques she has learned from completing trainings in TF-CBT and DDP. In particular using playfulness, acceptance, curiosity and empathy in order to develop a therapeutic relationship that promotes healing.
Outside of work, Michelle enjoys spending time with her family and friends, walking outside, and continuing to learn whenever given the opportunity.
Michelle can be found at the following location:
Visit Reasons:
Insurance Accepted:
- Aetna
- Aetna: Medicare
- Aetna: PPO/POS
- All Savers
- Ambetter
- Ambetter: Medicaid
- Anthem/Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Anthem/Blue Cross Blue Shield: Medicaid
- BCBS/Blue Cross Blue Shield
- BCBS/Blue Cross Blue Shield: Medicaid
- BCBS/Blue Cross Blue Shield: Medicare
- Behavioral Health Systems/Telus Health
- Carelon
- Carelon: Medicare
- Cigna/Evernorth
- Cigna/Evernorth: Medicare
- GEHA/Government Employees Health Association
- Healthy Blue: Medicaid
- Home State Health: Medicaid
- Home State Health: Show Me Healthy Kids Medicaid
- Humana
- Humana: Medicare
- Medica
- Medicare
- Mercy Managed Behavioral Health
- Mercy Managed Behavioral Health: Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Mercy Managed Behavioral Health: Medicare
- MO HealthNet: Medicaid
- PHCS/MultiPlan/Claritev
- PHCS/MultiPlan/Claritev: Medicare
- Optum
- Oscar
- Partners Direct Health
- Self Pay
- TRICARE East Region
- TRICARE West Region
- UHC Community Plan: Medicaid
- UHC/UnitedHealthcare
- UMR
- United Behavioral Health
- Uprise Health
- VA Community Care Network/Optum
- Wellcare: Medicare
- WellFirst
- WellFirst: Medicare
- Essence Healthcare: Medicare Advantage
- IBEW Local 309
- LHN/Labor Health Network
- Humana: PPO
- Humana: HMO
Therapy Types:
- Individual Therapy
Therapeutic Approaches:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
- Somatic Experiencing
- Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Child Parent Psychotherapy (CCP)
- Mindfulness-Based Therapy
- Person-Centered Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Relational Life Therapy
- Solution-Focused/Brief Therapy
- Spiritual or Holistic Approach