About Michelle
Dr. Michelle White is a California psychologist with seven years of professional experience. She has worked in independent practice and community mental health, offering individual and group psychotherapy.
Her background centers on helping people who are dealing with stress and anxiety. Her work often focuses on trauma, depression, and attention-related concerns such as ADHD. She also helps people facing relationship difficulties, low self-esteem, and major life changes.
Additional areas she attends to include issues around abandonment, attachment, isolation, self-love, sexual assault and social anxiety.
Background and approach
Her approach blends cognitive behavioral therapy with psychodynamic ideas rooted in attachment and object relations. In sessions she aims to notice patterns that cause distress and to build practical skills for managing symptoms. She also pays attention to personal history and relationship patterns that shape how people respond to stress.
Clients can expect a style that values their experience and strengths. She emphasizes collaboration and believes people know important parts of their own stories. Therapy begins by identifying what the person wants to change and finding small, achievable steps toward those goals.
Dr. White works by combining present-focused skill building with deeper reflection on repeated patterns. That mix can help someone reduce anxiety symptoms, improve relationships, and handle life transitions.
She encourages people to take the first step when they feel ready.
Approaches online and how they help
Dr. White uses cognitive behavioral therapy and psychodynamic ideas in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and social fears because it teaches concrete coping skills and step-by-step behavioral changes. Psychodynamic therapy pays attention to patterns from past relationships and attachment experiences. It helps when repeated relationship problems, abandonment worries, or long-standing self-esteem issues are part of the concern.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She works with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That might mean starting with skill-based CBT exercises and adding deeper psychodynamic reflection as trust grows.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit people who prefer written communication or need flexible, ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work during transitions.
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- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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