About Michelle
Michelle Wendel focuses on helping adults who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, parenting pressures, career concerns, or life transitions. She aims to make the first steps toward support feel manageable and straightforward. Michelle introduces a calm, steady presence so people can talk about what matters most to them.
She uses practical strategies that match each person's situation. Sessions often include ways to handle anxious thoughts, build healthier habits, strengthen self-esteem, and manage role changes like parenting or retirement.
How Michelle works
Michelle also addresses relationship patterns such as codependency and communication problems that can wear people down. Her work draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to shape conversations and exercises. That means helping people notice what matters to them, testing different responses, and shifting unhelpful thinking in small steps.
The goal is clearer choices rather than quick fixes. Michelle has spent ten years in clinical practice in California as a licensed marriage and family therapist, LMFT. During that time she has supported people through divorce and separation, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, midlife challenges, aging and geriatric issues, and workplace stress.
Her background also includes helping people work through guilt, shame, forgiveness, and finding life purpose. She encourages a collaborative approach where the person sets the pace and goals. Michelle offers straightforward guidance and practical tools so people can build skills and feel more grounded as life changes unfold.
Michelle lists 3 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
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
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Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| 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 Michelle's Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and building trust so the person can explore their concerns and decide what change looks like for them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts influence actions and mood, and teaches practical skills to challenge unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Michelle collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time and checks in regularly to see what is helping and what needs to change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make fitting therapy into a busy life easier. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and messaging lets people share thoughts between sessions. These options increase flexibility so therapy can fit work, parenting, or travel schedules.
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