Together, we will explore your values and redefine your relationship with these stories in order to discover what possibilities exist beyond their limiting functions.
Together, we will explore your values and redefine your relationship with these stories in order to discover what possibilities exist beyond their limiting functions.
My approach is trauma-informed and relational. This means I explore how one's past can impact one's present. Most of all, I am captured by the stories people share and use them to help clients understand their lives in greater detail and context.
Together, we will hold each other accountable. We will work on your therapy goals, which we create together. We will very regularly and insightfully check in with our progress, homework, successes and challenges to make your therapy most effective.
Together, we will hold each other accountable. We will work on your therapy goals, which we create together. We will very regularly and insightfully check in with our progress, homework, successes and challenges to make your therapy most effective.
What makes me unique is I use constant feedback to keep track of our progress together. I let myself rise to this challenge, since alliance and feedback increase effectiveness in therapy. I use various eclectic therapeutic strategies.
Michelle is passionate about working with folx who feel like they are “not good enough”. We can work together to help you learn to trust, like and love yourself for who you are and not your productivity.
Michelle is passionate about working with folx who feel like they are “not good enough”. We can work together to help you learn to trust, like and love yourself for who you are and not your productivity.
Michelle utilizes an integrative approach with curiosity, care, compassion and humor. She/they weaves together components of EDMR, Internal Family Systems, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, somatic work and mindfulness for customized care.
I provide individual therapy for adults. I have experience with a wide range of mental health areas, including body dysmorphic disorder, problematic eating patterns, body image concerns, anxiety, depression, and life transitions.
I provide individual therapy for adults. I have experience with a wide range of mental health areas, including body dysmorphic disorder, problematic eating patterns, body image concerns, anxiety, depression, and life transitions.
I enjoy tailoring therapy to each individual, thus I incorporate several modalities. Treatment modalities include internal family systems (IFS), psychodynamic, compassion-focused, CBT, and DBT.
Examine how your past is connected to your present, identify problematic relationship patterns, and figure out how you want to apply these insights to your life so that you can be kinder to yourself, enjoy deeper relationships, and live with meaning.
Examine how your past is connected to your present, identify problematic relationship patterns, and figure out how you want to apply these insights to your life so that you can be kinder to yourself, enjoy deeper relationships, and live with meaning.
I will help you to slow down and lean INTO your emotions, especially the uncomfortable ones you’re so good at avoiding. Psychodynamic psychotherapy is an intense process, but I will support and guide you as we explore the terrain of your inner life.