About Michelle
Dr. Michelle Coble is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She brings 16 years of experience and a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions.
She focuses on immediate problems like coping with addictions, parenting challenges, and building self-esteem. Her approach is straightforward and aimed at helping people make small changes that add up over time. Michelle earned a doctorate in health sciences and currently directs behavioral health at a large community health agency in California.
Background and approach
That background gives her experience with a wide range of concerns, including attachment and abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, and blended family stress. She also addresses communication problems, codependency, guilt and shame, and end-of-life and hospice-related counseling. Sessions center on listening first, then choosing practical steps that fit daily life.
She uses methods such as acceptance and commitment work, cognitive-behavioral ideas, and emotion-focused tools to help people notice patterns and try new responses. Mindfulness and skill-building are woven into conversations when they serve a person’s goals. Therapy with Michelle emphasizes collaboration.
She helps people set realistic goals and practices to build confidence and motivation. For those juggling caregiving, family strain, or recovery from separation, she offers steady guidance and problem-solving support. Her work is offered in English and provided from California.
Michelle encourages anyone feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or changes in family life to take the first step and explore what therapy might look like for them.
How her approach and online care fit together
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take actions that match their values. It can be useful for chronic anxiety and when motivation feels low. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety and impulsive responses. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) spotlights feelings in the moment and helps people name and regulate emotions, which can reduce shame and improve self-esteem.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will review concerns, try methods that fit, and adjust based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist work together to pick exercises and pacing that suit daily life and personal goals.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for longer sessions and face-to-face interaction, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows short check-ins during a busy day, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or recovery routines while using the approaches described above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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