About Michele
Michele San Martin is a licensed professional counselor in Texas with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She focuses on practical steps that a person can take now. Michele emphasizes listening and building on each person's strengths to move toward a more manageable life.
She sees the act of starting therapy as a brave first step. Michele treats clients as the experts on their own stories and partners with them to set realistic goals.
Background and approach
Sessions center on understanding what matters to the client and testing small, doable changes. Michele uses several clear methods to help people when life feels overwhelming. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Client-Centered Therapy creates a supportive space where the client's experience guides the work. She also draws on mindfulness techniques to reduce stress and improve focus. Solution-Focused Therapy is used to highlight what is already working and expand those strengths.
Michele may integrate ideas from Jungian perspectives when exploring personal meaning or recurring life themes. Michele has worked across many common concerns including relationships, trauma and abuse, grief, sleep problems, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, and career shifts. She also supports people coping with chronic illness, caregiving stress, and changes related to adoption or blended families.
Therapy with Michele can include talking through immediate problems, building coping skills, and planning steps toward longer-term change. She offers care in English and practices from Texas.
How Michele's Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own goals and experience. It means the therapist listens closely and follows what the client brings to sessions to shape the work. This approach helps when someone needs time to understand feelings and priorities before taking action.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and habits and testing small changes. It is useful for anxiety, sleep problems, and stress because it breaks big worries into specific steps to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Michele will discuss options, try techniques, and adjust based on the client's goals and what is most helpful. That collaborative process helps ensure therapy fits the person's needs and preferences.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people keep visual connection and read body language. Phone sessions or live chat can be quicker check-ins or work better when bandwidth is limited. Text-based messaging supports brief reflections, skill practice, and ongoing contact between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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