Dr. Michas received her B.S. in Psychology (Magna Cum Laude) from Florida State University, where she was distinguished as Phi Beta Kappa honors graduate. She obtained her Masters and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Texas A & M University. Her clinical training was completed with a 2-year internship and post-doctoral work at The New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center-Westchester Division, where she was introduced to the use of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) in 1990. From 1991-2006, she served as Clinical Program Director for Fort Walton Beach Medical Center’s Psychiatric Treatment Center, a 48-bed inpatient unit of a general-medical surgical hospital. Throughout these years, she provided consulting services to hospital corporations, such as Humana, Columbia, and HCA. From 1992 to 2025, Dr. Michas enjoyed a collaborative multidisciplinary practice with her neuropsychiatrist father George Michas, MD at Psychiatric Associates in Fort Walton Beach, FL, where she practiced as a FL-Licensed Psychologist. Providing evidenced-based psychotherapies. In 2012, she founded MindWorks Psychology, LLC to offer Brain-based Coaching, Consulting, Continuing Education and Training to Mental Health Professionals. For over 34 years Dr. Michas used accelerate healing processes and therapies to end emotional pain for clients. She coupled with her specialized neuropsychology, knowledge of brain change with an expertise in transformational change interventions. "I’ve been specializing in processes and therapies that bring about rapid and lasting change in a single visit. I use a variety of brain-body based interventions, more bottom-up, experiential processes than the more traditional cognitive, top-down talk-only methods. Target getting solutions and resolution for many common presenting problems. I keep the whole brain and nervous system in mind when doing therapy, and neuroplasticity science informs what we target and do in sessions