About Michal
Michal Pomeranetz is a California-licensed marriage and family therapist with 14 years of experience. She focuses on anxiety, stress, relationship concerns, low self-esteem, and depression. She helps people who are facing big life changes and those needing new ways to cope.
She creates a calm space where clients can talk about what matters most. Conversations are meant to be direct and kind, with an emphasis on practical steps that fit everyday life.
Background and approach
Michal aims to reduce overwhelming thoughts and build steady routines that support wellbeing. Her approach blends several methods so sessions can be adjusted to each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offers tools to notice and change unhelpful thoughts.
Mindfulness practices help people slow down and respond rather than react. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and motivate change, and Client-Centered Therapy to keep the work grounded in the client’s perspective. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used where emotional regulation and distress tolerance are needed.
Sessions include clear goals, small experiments to try between meetings, and moments to reflect on progress. Michal speaks English and Hebrew and practices in California. She encourages anyone feeling stuck to take the next step and complete a short matching questionnaire to begin.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small actions toward those values even when anxiety is present. It focuses on making room for difficult thoughts while moving forward with meaningful steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches concrete skills to notice and test unhelpful thoughts and to change behaviors that keep problems going. It is useful for anxiety, mood challenges, and building new routines to handle life changes.
Michal treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She listens to each person’s goals and tries different techniques until something fits. Together they set practical objectives and adjust methods based on how the work is going.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when video is not convenient. Live chat and text messaging are available for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or when someone prefers writing between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep consistent progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Hebrew
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