About Michele
Michele Lando is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 13 years of experience offering trauma-informed, integrative therapy. Michele describes themself as neurodivergent and LGBT-affirming and brings a straightforward, compassionate presence to sessions. Michele focuses on helping people cope with grief, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and parenting stresses.
They also help people facing challenges related to abandonment, adoption and foster care, aging, attachment issues, autism, avoidant personality patterns, and body image concerns.
How Michele works
Their approach blends acceptance and commitment work with cognitive-behavioral and attachment-based techniques. Michele uses emotion-focused methods to address relational concerns and draws on mindfulness to calm the nervous system. Sessions include practical tools for everyday life as well as room to process difficult feelings.
Michele often incorporates work that acknowledges neurodivergent strengths and challenges. They use narrative strategies to help people reframe their stories and build resilience. Somatic tools such as brain-spotting and trauma-aware movement are used when helpful to address body-based responses to stress.
In session, Michele aims to identify strengths, set manageable goals, and teach skills that fit a person’s daily routine. The focus is on small steps that lead to better coping and clearer relationships. People leave sessions with concrete strategies and clearer next steps.
Michele lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Michele works with
The areas below are the ones Michele selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approach-driven online therapy for everyday challenges
Michele often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify values and take small, meaningful actions toward those values. ACT mixes mindfulness and practical exercises to reduce avoidance and build a life that matters to the client.Attachment-Based Therapy is used when relationship patterns and early caregiving experiences affect current connections. This work helps people notice how they relate to others and practice new ways of connecting and regulating emotions.
The therapist treats therapy as a collaborative process. Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Michele will help clients identify goals, try approaches that fit their needs, and adjust methods based on what helps most.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and energy levels. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat and text suit short check-ins or when writing helps process thoughts. These options make it possible to keep continuity of care, fit sessions into busy days, and use the methods that work best for each person.
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