About Michal
Dr. Michal Jorgens is a licensed clinical psychologist in Minnesota with 28 years of experience. She focuses on anxiety and related concerns, and aims to make sessions straightforward and approachable.
Her style is informal and focused on understanding the person in front of her. She emphasizes respect and clear communication in every meeting. Dr.
Jorgens listens first to understand each person's view of their problems. She uses that understanding to pick helpful ways of working together.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be practical and grounded, with attention to how thoughts, behaviors, and relationships affect daily life. Her background includes long experience in outpatient clinical settings. That work has covered a wide range of concerns, including stress, depression, addictions, trauma, grief, and relationship issues.
She also supports people dealing with sleep and eating problems, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and attention concerns such as ADHD. Clinically, she draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centered ways of relating, cognitive behavioral techniques, and dialectical behavior strategies. She also brings elements of existential thinking when people face big life changes or questions about meaning.
Choices of approach are made together, based on what the person needs. People who come to Dr. Jorgens can expect calm, direct conversation about what is getting in the way and what might help.
She aims to earn trust over time and to work with each person to set realistic, useful goals. Her teaching and clinical years inform a practical way of moving forward.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in relationships and how early connections shape current reactions. Online sessions let people talk about those patterns and practice new ways of connecting in everyday life. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. In remote sessions CBT techniques can be taught, practiced, and reviewed between meetings. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and balanced thinking; those skill-building elements can fit well into phone or video formats.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals, try different strategies, and adjust the plan based on what helps. The focus is on finding methods that match your needs and preferences rather than a fixed protocol.
Online formats provide practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier if being on camera is not desired. Live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins, skill practice, and ongoing notes between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other daily routines while still using the therapist's chosen methods.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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