About Michelle
Michelle Torres M is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions. She focuses on practical steps that reduce daily strain and help people feel steadier. Michelle uses straightforward talk and steady support to help people make changes that stick.
She often works with people processing trauma and the ways it affects identity and everyday life. Michelle helps clients untangle the roots of depression and anxiety so they can find clearer ways to cope.
Background and approach
She also supports those who struggle with people-pleasing, boundary setting, and compassion fatigue. Her background as a member of a minority community shaped her view of how culture, family traditions, and larger systems can affect mental health. That perspective informs how she listens and responds in sessions.
Michelle looks for practical patterns to change and personal strengths to build on. Her style is warm and client-centered. Sessions focus on what matters most to the person in front of her.
Progress is framed around small, doable shifts rather than big, sudden transformations. Michelle blends attachment-based ideas with a client-centered stance to create a clear, relational approach. She aims to help people feel more connected to themselves and to others while learning skills to manage anxiety, grief, anger, and stress.
This combination supports steady, long-term progress.
Attachment and Client-Centered Approaches Online
Michelle draws on attachment-based ideas to understand how early relationships shape current behavior and emotional responses. This perspective helps when anxiety, intimacy issues, or patterns from the past make daily life harder. She also uses a client-centered stance, which emphasizes listening, validation, and collaboration so clients set the pace and priorities for change.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Michelle will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. She adapts techniques based on what a client needs, so the plan reflects individual circumstances and comfort levels.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets people read nonverbal cues and build rapport. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins and ongoing written reflection between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into varied schedules and needs.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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