About Michele
Michele San Martin greets people with calm and practical support. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with two decades of experience. Michele focuses on helping people sort through stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship struggles.
She starts by listening to each person's story and recognizes their strengths. Michele treats clients as the experts on their own lives and works alongside them to set realistic goals. Steps in therapy are kept clear and manageable to reduce overwhelm.
How Michele works
Michele uses a mix of approaches that match what a person needs in the moment. She draws on client-centered methods to create a respectful, collaborative space. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offers concrete tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Mindfulness techniques and solution-focused steps are used to build coping skills and small wins. For deeper personal patterns, Michele may explore symbolic and narrative material influenced by Jungian ideas. Sessions aim to be practical and paced to each person's comfort.
Her work covers many life challenges including parenting strain, grief, caregiver stress, chronic illness adjustments, work and career concerns, and intimacy-related problems. Michele also helps people facing abandonment, attachment, blended family issues, and the emotional effects of adoption and foster care. Therapy can include conversations about sleep, anger, self-esteem, and ADHD-related concerns.
Michele encourages gradual change and helps people build tools they can keep using after therapy ends.
Michele lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
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.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How Michele's approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and values. Michele uses listening and open questions so people set the pace and goals. This approach can help with relationship strain, grief, and feelings of emptiness.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Michele uses CBT to teach simple techniques for reducing anxiety, improving sleep, and shifting unhelpful thinking. Solution-Focused Therapy looks for small, achievable steps and builds on what already works in a person's life to create momentum.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Michele discusses options and tailors methods based on the client's needs, goals, and preferences. The plan can change as progress is made so therapy stays relevant and practical.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from another location. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text messaging offer brief check-ins, quick coping ideas, and written reflections that can be reviewed later. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and varying comfort levels.
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