About Michelle
Michelle North is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing anxiety, stress, relationship strain, grief, life changes, and ADHD-related challenges. She practices from California and uses straightforward, practical conversations to help clients move toward clearer goals. Michelle writes plans with each person and focuses on building skills that can be used between sessions.
Her style is warm and person-centered. She meets people where they are and adapts questions and tools to each situation.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize real-life coping skills for sleep, self-esteem, career stress, and intimacy concerns. Michelle also addresses issues tied to adoption, attachment, and family of origin patterns. She blends approaches to fit each client.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offers concrete techniques for changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Attachment-based ideas help when past relationships shape current reactions. Jungian and existential perspectives invite exploration of meaning, identity, and deeper life purpose.
Michelle has worked in the field for over a decade and brings steady clinical experience to emotionally complex situations. She supports people dealing with compassion fatigue, process addictions, fertility and end-of-life concerns, and veterans' challenges. Her background includes work with grief, hospice, and major life transitions.
Conversations with Michelle focus on practical next steps and personal strengths. She encourages small experiments between sessions and reviews what works. The aim is clearer priorities, fewer daily disruptions from anxiety or sleep problems, and more confidence in facing relationship or career decisions.
Approaches and online options for collaborative change
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how earlier relationships affect current bonds and emotional reactions. It helps when worry or conflict seems rooted in trust, closeness, or fear of abandonment. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, or manage ADHD-related distractibility.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, then try methods that fit each person's needs. Together they monitor progress and adjust the plan if something isn’t helping, keeping the process collaborative rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for fuller back-and-forth when a face-to-face feel helps. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits the day. Messaging and live chat are helpful for quick reflections, tracking small steps, or keeping momentum between meetings. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into work, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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