About Michelle
Michelle North is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 13 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship tension, grief, and major life changes. She also supports concerns related to intimacy, sleep problems, self-esteem, career stress, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.
Michelle welcomes conversations about LGBT issues and family-related topics as they affect individuals. Her approach is practical and person-focused. She listens first, then tailors conversations and plans to match each person's needs.
How Michelle works
Sessions aim to clarify what matters most and to build small, workable steps forward. Michelle combines attachment-based ideas with client-centered listening and cognitive behavioral tools. She uses those methods to address patterns that keep people stuck, like old relationship dynamics or unhelpful thinking.
She also draws on existential and Jungian themes when meaning, life purpose, or deeper self-exploration are part of the concern. Clients can expect a calm, collaborative process. Michelle names patterns, offers straightforward strategies, and brings attention to how past relationships influence present behavior.
She balances practical coping skills with space to process loss, identity, or major transitions. Many people seek her help for specific issues such as adoption and foster care questions, attachment concerns, communication problems, fertility and end-of-life matters, or process addictions. She frames these topics so they are easier to talk about and to take action on.
Michelle lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Michelle works with
The areas below are the ones Michelle selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online work and connection
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people notice how they relate to others and build safer, more flexible responses in relationships. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person in the room. The therapist follows the client's lead, offers reflective listening, and supports self-directed growth and clarity. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It provides concrete strategies to change unhelpful thinking and to try new behaviors that reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will collaborate with each person to select methods that match their situation, goals, and preferences. Together they review what feels most useful and adjust the plan as progress is made. Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, homework support, or people who do better with written reflection. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy days and to keep continuity during life transitions.Start online instead of waiting
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