About Michele
Michele Caban is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 35 years of experience. She focuses on helping people handle stress and anxiety, work through relationship challenges, and cope with grief and loss. Michele speaks plainly and meets people where they are when they begin therapy.
She believes clients know their stories best and brings a respectful, listening approach to each session. Michele helps people notice patterns that keep them stuck and then practices small, doable steps to change them.
Background and approach
Sessions include practical tools as well as space to talk through painful events like trauma and abuse. Michele draws on several approaches to fit what each person needs. She uses mindfulness and acceptance strategies to help people stay present with difficult feelings.
She also uses cognitive and client-centered techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and build on strengths. Her work includes attention to attachment and close relationship dynamics. That helps when communication breaks down, when trust has been damaged, or when blended family situations create stress.
Michele also supports people facing guilt, shame, isolation, caregiving pressure, life-purpose questions, and issues related to infidelity or separation. Sessions are offered in English and Michele sees clients in California. She welcomes international clients and adapts her style for different cultures and life circumstances.
If someone is ready to start, she encourages that first step and offers steady, experienced guidance along the way.
How Michele’s approaches translate to online therapy
Michele often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice their thoughts and choose actions that match their values. ACT focuses on accepting difficult feelings while taking small steps toward what matters, which can be useful for anxiety and life-direction questions.She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how past and present relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps people understand connection needs and improve communication and trust in close relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michele helps clients pick and adjust methods based on their goals, comfort level, and day-to-day needs. She treats the choice as collaborative and will try different techniques to see what fits best.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and practice conversations in real time. Phone sessions can work well when video bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Messaging and live chat are useful for brief updates, journaling between sessions, or checking in during a busy week. These options aim to make therapy flexible and easier to fit into work, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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