About Chloe Mitchell, MSW (LLMSW Pending*)
Therapist for Children, Teens, & Adults | Sport, Performance, and Mind-Body Wellness
Chloe Mitchell brings a layered, integrative perspective to therapy, with a particular focus on athletes, performers, and clients navigating the mental side of high-pressure environments. Her interest in this work is rooted in her own competitive background in gymnastics and figure skating and in eight years of coaching figure skating and hockey skating skills throughout the Ann Arbor and Metro Detroit areas. That dual perspective, as both athlete and coach, has given her a textured understanding of how high-performance environments can be deeply meaningful and, at times, quietly demanding for the people moving through them. Alongside this focus, Chloe works with children, adolescents, and adults across a wide range of presenting concerns, including anxiety, mood, self-esteem, identity, relationships, and the kinds of life transitions that show up at every stage.
A proud "double Wolverine," Chloe earned her B.S. in Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience and her Master of Social Work from the University of Michigan. Her clinical thinking sits at the intersection of neuroscience, lived experience, and the body's role in emotional life, and she works with a deep curiosity about what is actually driving a client's patterns rather than what is showing up on the surface. Within the integrative framework at Michigan Wellbeing, Chloe is especially aligned with the work of tracing symptoms back to their root causes, building self-understanding that meaningfully changes how clients show up in their lives, and weaving mind, body, relationships, and environment into a coherent picture of wellbeing.
Chloe's earlier clinical training included interdisciplinary work with attorneys, physicians, and psychologists at the University of Michigan Law School Pediatric Advocacy Clinic, where she supported children with complex medical needs and their families through high-stress systems. That experience sharpened her ability to hold steady in difficult moments, collaborate fluently across professions, and stay attuned to the emotional realities that often go unspoken in families navigating big challenges.
Chloe's approach is built on the belief that lasting change comes from understanding the whole person, the mind, the body, the relationships, and the environments we move through.
Chloe's therapeutic style is warm, collaborative, and grounded in the realities of each client's life. She draws primarily from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), combining concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and relationships with the slower, more reflective work of clarifying what matters and moving toward it. She pays close attention to the way the body holds emotion and to the everyday inputs that quietly shape mental health, including sleep, movement, relationships, and the rhythms of daily life. With athletes and performers, this same foundation extends into the mental side of training and competition: confidence, motivation, performance pressure, recovering from mistakes, navigating injury, and the work of holding a meaningful life alongside the demands of sport.
At Michigan Wellbeing, Chloe is part of a clinical team built around the deeper work of helping clients understand themselves, integrate body and mind, and create change that actually holds. She takes a slower, more deliberate pace than therapy often allows. Rather than chase the presenting symptom, she looks for the pattern underneath, trusting that her clients already carry much of what they need to change it. Whether she's helping a young athlete find what their sport actually means to them, walking a teenager through identity and friendship, supporting a parent through a hard season, or helping an adult make sense of patterns that keep returning, she brings depth, warmth, and steady clinical care to every conversation.
*Chloe's LLMSW license application is currently under review with the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA), and we anticipate she will be available to begin seeing new clients in early to mid summer.
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