Michelle Cowan is a Licensed Clinical Social Work (LCSW) who started in Behavioral Health in the Child & Family Division at Seven Counties Services, Inc. in 1998 and has experience providing services across the lifespan.  She currently provides treatment and clinical outcomes services in the Addiction Recovery Center.  She is the manager of the addiction assessment team and clinical outcomes team.  She assists with the Building Communities of Recovery grant (BCOR) in addition to being a part of the leadership team. 

 

Michelle Cowan received her undergraduate degree at Spalding University, where she majored in Psychology in 1998.   After working several years in a Mental Health Crisis Stabilization Unit and Day Treatment program, she returned to school in 2000 to obtain her Master of Science in Social Work to provide clinical services to children, women, and families.  Ms. Cowan has worked in many agencies in our community, such as Park DuValle Community Health Center,  Seven Counties Services, Inc., Home of the Innocents, and Brooklawn Child Family Services.  Through her experiences, she has worked with many different populations dealing with depression, trauma, anxiety, substance abuse, severe mental illness, and many other symptoms and mental health diagnoses that affect persons in our community.  

 

Ms. Cowan currently provides many different services in the community that consist of supervision of master-level Social Workers working toward their independent clinician license, teaching adjunctively at the University of Louisville Kent School of Social Work and Family Services, and being a founder of the Black Counseling and Consultative Collective. Ms. Cowan is working on her Doctorial of Social Work degree at the University of Louisville Kent School of Social Work and Family Science. She believes that her gift is creating healing and hope for persons seeking counseling treatment and serving the mental health community.  

 

Ms. Cowan has had to work through the barriers in her life, which she believes has had an impact on her service delivery in providing treatment and has shaped her ability to help those in the community who are traumatized, marginalized, and disenfranchised.  Ms. Cowan’s passion is in helping others meet their potential in their lives through learning ways to cope, heal, and address mental health and trauma in the lives of people in the community.