About Michele
Michele Heyman is a licensed counselor with 19 years of clinical experience. She helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and life transitions. Michele aims to make difficult conversations feel manageable and to guide practical next steps.
She works with common concerns like relationship trouble, parenting strains, body image and eating issues, and career stress. She also supports people facing blended family challenges, aging and geriatric questions, and long-term caregiving fatigue.
Background and approach
Michele uses straightforward talk and focused skills rather than jargon. Michele draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and client-centered methods. She blends these to match each person's needs, using mindfulness and motivational techniques when helpful.
Sessions emphasize clear strategies and small, doable changes. Her experience includes supporting people from many backgrounds, including first responders, nurses, and law enforcement. Michele values honesty, respect, and compassion in the room.
She encourages clients who are ready to take steps toward healthier patterns. In sessions she listens first, then helps set practical goals. Conversations often include coping skills, communication practice, and real-world homework.
Michele frames therapy as a collaborative process aimed at steady progress.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on choosing actions that match personal values, which can help with anxiety, depression, and big life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It teaches concrete skills to shift unhelpful thinking and build new habits, useful for stress, sleep problems, and mood concerns.
Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and empathy. The therapist provides a respectful space where the client leads the conversation and identifies their own goals.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with the client to try approaches, tweak techniques, and settle on what fits best for goals and preferences. That collaborative process helps make sessions feel relevant and usable.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper conversations and skills practice. Phone can work when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and messaging suit brief updates, coaching-style support, or flexible communication during a busy week. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and caregiving schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Texas, New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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