About Michelle
Michelle North is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California with thirteen years of experience. She helps people who are overwhelmed by stress and anxiety, wrestling with grief or major life changes, or trying to repair intimacy and relationship patterns. Her approach is warm and straightforward, and she aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable.
Michelle adapts conversations and plans to each person's situation. Sessions focus on clear goals and everyday tools that can be used between meetings.
Background and approach
She listens for patterns that come from early attachments, family of origin issues, or experiences such as adoption and foster care, and then helps clients try different ways of relating and coping. She draws on client-centered work to build a trusting space and uses cognitive-behavioral ideas to pinpoint unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Attachment-based perspectives and existential questions are woven into sessions when people want to better understand meaning, identity, or life purpose. Jungian ideas may be introduced for those curious about dreams and deeper personal symbols. Michelle also supports people facing fertility and hospice concerns, process addictions, compassion fatigue, seasonal mood shifts, and challenges tied to career and self-esteem.
She works with issues like abandonment, codependency, communication problems, and control struggles in practical ways. Sessions are offered in English and available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Getting started involves completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits each person’s life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Michelle commonly blends client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following each person's pace, which helps when someone needs acceptance and a clearer sense of direction. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors to identify patterns that increase anxiety or low mood and teaches practical strategies to change them.Attachment-based ideas are also part of her online work when clients want to understand how early relationships shape current intimacy and stress responses. That perspective helps when people are repairing communication, dealing with abandonment issues, or trying to alter long-standing interaction patterns.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process and happens together with the therapist. She will talk about goals, what has or hasn't worked before, and personal preferences. Sessions may shift emphasis over time so the plan fits changing needs and progress.
Online formats offered include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people read visual cues and have longer conversations, phone sessions can work well when lower bandwidth or hands-free communication is needed, and chat or messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or step-by-step skill work. These options aim to make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep continuity of care when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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