- Practical steps
- Collaborative listening
- Mindfulness tools
About Michele
Michele San Martin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship difficulties. Michele emphasizes practical steps and steady support for someone who wants clearer direction and less overwhelm.
She describes clients as the experts in their own lives and works from that belief. Sessions often begin with listening to the immediate concern and identifying small, manageable goals. Michele draws on approaches like client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral tools, mindfulness practices, and solution-focused strategies to help people find relief and make changes that fit their life.
Her background includes long experience with trauma and abuse, family and parenting tensions, compassion fatigue, and issues that affect daily routines like sleep and chronic illness. Michele also helps people facing life transitions, career stress, identity concerns such as abandonment or attachment wounds, and coping with natural or human-caused disaster.
In therapy she uses straightforward conversations and concrete strategies rather than jargon. Expect a steady pace, practical options to try between sessions, and collaborative review of what is or isn’t working. Michele supports people through both short-term problem solving and deeper, longer-term change.
Clients come away with clearer steps to reduce symptoms, repair communication, and rebuild routines. The focus is on realistic progress that fits each person’s situation.
How Michele’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the person seeking help. It helps people feel heard and figure out their own next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers practical exercises to change patterns that cause distress. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention practices that can reduce reactivity and improve sleep, stress, and focus.Finding the best mix of these approaches is part of the work. Michele treats the selection as collaborative and adjusts methods based on a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. Expect to try techniques together, review how they felt, and refine the plan as you go.
Many people find online therapy easier to fit into busy lives because sessions can be scheduled around work, caregiving, or medical appointments. Online work can make short check-ins or regular weekly sessions more practical. Confirm the exact session formats available with the therapist before booking so you know whether sessions are by video, phone, or another option. The emphasis is on making therapy useful and workable for everyday routines.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
20+ years
Credentials
Texas
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns can Michele help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and family issues, grief, compassion fatigue, sleep problems, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, career stress, ADHD, and coping with life changes including coping with natural or human-caused disaster.
What is her general therapy style?
Her style is collaborative and practical. Michele listens first, then uses client-centered conversation, cognitive behavioral tools, mindfulness, and solution-focused steps to help people try changes between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
She has 20 years of professional work experience counseling people with a wide range of life and mental health concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, licensed in Texas and practices from that state.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. She is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not list specific formats.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a session according to therapist availability.