About Michelle
Michelle Magee-Lopez is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship and parenting challenges. She draws on practical talk and simple tools so parents and adults can manage daily strain and feel steadier. Her tone is calm and straightforward, focused on clear steps and useful skills rather than jargon.
She trained in Theater Arts at California State University Long Beach and later completed a Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy at California State University Dominguez Hills.
Background and approach
Michelle has six years of clinical experience and has worked with people in schools, clinics, and community settings. She brings both educational and real-world experience to sessions. Her style centers on listening closely and helping clients tell the story of their lives differently.
Michelle uses client-centered conversations to follow what matters most to each person. She also draws on narrative and solution-focused methods to set small, achievable goals and to reframe difficult patterns. In sessions she helps parents with blended family challenges, communication problems, and guilt or shame tied to caregiving.
She also supports people coping with trauma, grief, addictions, identity questions, and career or life-purpose decisions. Michelle aims to make therapy a place to try on new responses and build practical habits for daily life. People working with her can expect a collaborative approach.
She meets clients where they are and works at a pace they can handle. The focus is on useful changes that fit real routines and responsibilities.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the client. The therapist offers acceptance and reflection so people can explore feelings and make choices that fit their life. This approach helps with anxiety, stress, relationship concerns, and building self-understanding.Narrative Therapy looks at the stories people tell about themselves and their relationships. Sessions help separate problems from the person and open room for new, more helpful stories. This can be useful for grief, identity questions, shame, and family-of-origin issues.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals, needs, and personal style. Together they try different ways of working and adjust course when something does not fit.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility: video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports short reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, keep momentum between meetings, and choose the format that best supports each step of change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California, Nevada
- Languages
- English
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