About Michelle
Michelle Frizzelle is a licensed marriage and family therapist who centers practical, down-to-earth support. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and depression while helping people navigate life changes and relationship strains. Michelle uses straightforward listening and steady presence to help people feel heard and make gradual progress.
She draws on 10 years of clinical experience in California and Oregon to guide each conversation. Sessions emphasize clear goals and real steps people can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Michelle keeps language simple and avoids therapy jargon so people can follow along and use what they learn right away. Michelle blends several approaches to fit each person’s needs. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and builds new coping skills. Client-centered work makes room for emotions and personal strengths to lead the pace. Her background includes work with addiction, parenting concerns, sleep and eating issues, ADHD, attachment and adoption-related topics, and trauma such as sexual assault or domestic violence.
She also supports people facing cancer, aging questions, divorce, and caregiving stress. Michelle aims for a collaborative relationship where goals are revisited often. She invites people to try small experiments and practical strategies between sessions.
That steady, flexible approach helps people move toward greater calm and clearer choices.
How Michelle Uses Practical Therapies Online
Michelle frequently draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and focus on meaningful actions. ACT is useful for anxiety, stress, and situations where avoidance has become a problem because it emphasizes values and small steps.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and build new coping habits. CBT offers concrete tools for managing worry, sleep problems, and mood changes. Client-centered therapy guides the pace of work by following the client’s concerns and strengths, offering supportive listening when people need to process emotions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Michelle collaborates with each person to shape goals, test strategies, and adjust methods based on what helps. That collaborative process makes it easier to try new skills and notice progress.
Online therapy lets people connect in ways that fit their lives. Video calls are good for deeper conversations, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work and family demands while focusing on practical change.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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