Michelle is a Certified Holistic Life Coach with a practice located in Hamilton, Ohio and clients around the United States joining sessions and groups via Zoom. She holds a Master of Art degree in Psychology and completed all necessary academic work and on-site training for her clinical doctorate in psychology.

She is presently working toward her PhD in Humanities with a focus on Culture and Diversity.
Her career trajectory provided opportunities to learn in a variety settings, including but not limited to; children hospital psychiatric inpatient and residential units; school psychology programs; prison psychological assessment and risk evaluation; psychological diagnostic, personality assessment, and neuropsychological evaluation consultation in psychiatric hospitals; experiential therapy; forensic psychological reports; and, gender and sexually diverse cultural competency and humility consultation for providers and organizations.

Across all settings and situations, a need to fully understand the impact of PTSD, or more importantly, C-PTSD and the intricate overlap and relationship with personality disorders became evident. Her strength lies in her ability to recognize how undesired behaviors were, at one time, functional.

As a survivor of narcissistic abuse, Ms. Minette recognized a gap in mental health services for the unique set of challenges toward healing from narcissistic abuse and used her education and training to provide this space for others. In March of 2020 she began the Surviving Narcissistic Abuse Group (SNAG), which grew online during quarantine and continues to meet today.

She specializes in working with people surviving narcissistic abuse and trans youth and their families, teaches psychology courses at a local college, provides consultation to a parenting program for divorcing couples that she helped create in 2020, and facilitates a gender and sexually diverse youth safe space with concurrent parent support group with a local suicide prevention organization.

Education:

• Doctoral Student. Interdisciplinary Humanities: Culture and Diversity. present. Union Institute & University.
• ABD. Psychology. 2010-2018. Union Institute & University.
• M.A. Psychology. 2012. Union Institute & University.
• B.S. Psychology. 2005. University of Cincinnati. Graduated Cum Laude.

Affiliations:

• Transform Cincy
• Envision Partnerships LGBTQ+ Suicide Prevention Coalition
• Forensic Evaluation Service Center
• Cincinnati State Technical and Community College

Professional Accomplishments:

• Ongoing volunteer, facilitator, and founder of LGBTQ+ youth safe spaces and parent support groups.
• Facilitator of panels for LGBTQ+ at the Northern Kentucky Youth Summit and Indianapolis LGBTQ+ Center.
• Created the Mandatory Education Parenting Class required by divorcing parents in Butler County, Ohio offered by Forensic Evaluation Service Center and remains an ongoing consultant for the program.
• Trained in:
  • DBT
  • CBT
  • TF-CBT
  • Experiential Therapy
  • Positive Psychology
  • Client-Centered Therapy
  • (presently in training) RO-DBT
  • Emotionally Focused Therapy
  • Transgender Clinical Practices
  • A variety of diagnostic, personality, and neurological psychological assessments
• Trained other professionals and community organizational staff in:
  • Cultural competency/humility with LGBTQ+ clients
  • DBT skills
  • Social Work Ethics for Professional Practice

Areas Michelle Can Work In:

• Hamilton, Ohio in person.
• No geographical limits for online individual coaching and groups.

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