About Michelle
Michelle Torres M is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her work often centers on improving relationships, parenting concerns, anger, intimacy issues, and self-esteem.
Her sessions aim to help people uncover how past experiences shape current struggles. She pays attention to family patterns and cultural influences and how those affect everyday choices.
How Michelle works
Michelle helps clients name people-pleasing habits and practice clearer boundaries in small, manageable steps. She uses attachment-based perspectives to notice how early connections affect trust and closeness. She also practices client-centered approaches that put the person’s goals at the center of each session.
Together these methods help people not only reduce symptoms but also build clearer understanding of why they react the way they do. Michelle often works with life changes such as career shifts, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, and the challenges of ADHD. She supports people as they learn new coping skills and try out different ways of relating to others.
Sessions tend to focus on what is happening now and what practical changes someone can try between meetings. Her own background as a minority informed her interest in systemic and cultural factors in mental health. That experience shapes how she listens and asks questions so people feel seen.
Michelle aims to help clients feel more empowered and confident making choices that reflect their values.
Michelle lists 2 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.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How attachment and client-centered work online
Michelle uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationship patterns affect trust and closeness. This approach can help people working through trauma, intimacy issues, or repeated relationship patterns by focusing on how they connect with others. She also practices client-centered therapy, which centers the person's own goals and experiences and encourages self-direction and choice in sessions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Michelle works with each person to figure out which ideas fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts pace and methods as needed so therapy feels useful and relevant rather than confusing or prescriptive.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper emotional work, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter check-in is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different routines while keeping the focus on practical steps and relationship patterns.
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