About Mechelle
Dr. Mechelle Jungsten helps people tackle concerns such as anxiety, stress, depression, and difficulties with sleep or eating. She also supports clients who are coping with trauma, relationship strain, addiction, or life changes.
Mechelle is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with 12 years of clinical experience, and she brings a practical, hopeful approach to sessions. Her style is straightforward and goal-focused. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and change behaviors that keep people stuck.
Background and approach
She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and take action that matters to them. In sessions she works collaboratively and practically. Conversations tend to focus on doable strategies, small experiments, and skills you can use between meetings.
She helps people see patterns that feed anxiety, low self-esteem, or self-sabotaging habits and then practices alternatives together. Mechelle’s background includes a master’s degree in counseling psychology and a doctorate in behavioral health. She also has training as a health and wellness coach, which informs her focus on habit change and daily routines.
That mix of clinical and coaching perspectives shapes her pragmatic approach. Sessions are offered in English and Mechelle accepts international clients. She offers several online formats so people can choose what fits their life.
If you want a clear plan, practical skills, and a supportive collaborator, she aims to help you move forward.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts, clarify what matters to them, and take small actions that match those values. It can help with anxiety, avoidance, and life transitions by shifting the focus from eliminating feelings to living a meaningful life despite them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and change thinking patterns that lead to anxiety, low mood, or unhelpful habits. It uses practical exercises and behavioral experiments to test new ways of responding and reduce symptoms over time.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect current reactions. This approach is useful for people dealing with intimacy issues, relationship strain, or attachment-related anxiety.
Mechelle approaches care collaboratively and will help determine which methods fit a client’s needs and goals. She works with each person to choose techniques that feel right and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions work well for deeper conversations and skills practice, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and messaging or live chat can fit quick check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep working on goals from different settings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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