About Mechelle
Dr. Mechelle Jungsten helps people facing ADHD along with stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She draws on practical strategies to ease overwhelming thoughts and disruptive habits.
Her tone is direct and hopeful, aiming to help people take manageable steps forward. She uses short, focused conversations to identify patterns that keep someone stuck. Then she introduces simple skills to change those patterns.
Sessions emphasize clear goals and real-world practice between meetings.
Background and approach
Jungsten holds a Doctorate in Behavioral Health and a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist - LMFT - in California and has 12 years of clinical experience. Her background includes coaching around health and wellness and work with people facing co-occurring issues such as addiction and mood disorders.
Her approach mixes cognitive behavioral ideas with attachment-based and emotion-focused methods. That combination aims to shift thinking, improve close relationships, and make emotions easier to manage. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques are used to boost motivation and produce concrete change.
Clients can expect a collaborative style. The therapist listens, suggests specific exercises, and tracks progress together. Practical skills for sleep, eating patterns, anger, and everyday functioning are common coaching topics in sessions.
Dr. Jungsten offers help for workplace stress, parenting strain, caregiver burden, grief, and life transitions. She also addresses issues like guilt, shame, isolation, and questions about life purpose and money management.
Evidence-informed approaches delivered online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small actions that align with those values. It focuses on accepting difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to meaningful behavior change, which can help with anxiety, depression, and motivation struggles.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, teaches people to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and test them with real-life experiments. It provides step-by-step tools for managing anxiety, sleep and eating problems, anger, and the thinking that fuels self-sabotage.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and try methods that fit their needs. Together they track what helps and adjust tools when needed so therapy stays practical and goal driven.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and nonverbal cues, while phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style prompts, and practicing skills between sessions. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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