About Michele
Michele San Martin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with twenty years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD-related concerns. Michele aims to make the first step feel possible and to support people as they move toward clearer, more manageable days.
She approaches therapy assuming each person knows their own story. Sessions draw on strengths the client already has and on practical steps to reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
Michele encourages straightforward conversation and steady progress rather than quick fixes. Her work often centers on relationships, intimacy-related concerns, and family stress. Michele also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, sleep disruption, anger, and self-esteem challenges.
She uses methods meant to help people sort problems and try new ways of coping. Michele blends several approaches to fit individual needs. That can include client-centered work to honor a person's perspective, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity.
The mix depends on what the person says they want and what proves useful in sessions. Many people come for help with career strain, parenting pressure, or life changes like separation and loss. Michele offers a calm, practical presence and will help map small steps forward.
Her practice is based in Texas and she works in English.
How Michele's Approaches Work Online
Michele often uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening and understanding each person's perspective and building on their strengths. That approach helps people feel heard and respected while they decide what changes matter most.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, a hands-on method that looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and many everyday problems because it offers concrete skills to test between sessions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Michele will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for longer, deeper sessions and for working through emotion. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when a session needs to fit a break from work. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or staying connected between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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