About Michalle
Michalle Harmer offers direct, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or low self-esteem. She is a licensed counselor with 15 years of experience who focuses on helping clients find steady ways to cope and move forward. She works with adolescents, young adults, and adults across New Mexico, including people from multicultural, Indigenous, and Hispanic/Latinx backgrounds.
She also provides an affirming space for LGBTQIA+ individuals and for those juggling caregiving, school, or high-stress jobs.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at clear steps you can use between meetings. Her approach draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that directly address trauma, depression, and anxiety. For teens she applies methods tailored to younger clients, while other trauma-focused approaches are used with adults.
Michalle helps people process traumatic events, reduce persistent anxiety, and manage mood symptoms with concrete strategies. She has long experience supporting survivors of sexual assault and interpersonal violence and helps people who struggle with shame, guilt, codependency, or self-harm.
She also assists young adults facing major transitions like starting college or entering the workforce, and those dealing with communication problems and relationship patterns. In sessions she aims to create a culturally responsive, collaborative atmosphere where clients feel heard and respected.
The work centers on understanding what matters to you, building coping skills, and taking small, achievable steps toward better functioning and greater emotional balance.
Online trauma-informed and skills-based therapy
Michalle uses a few focused, evidence-based approaches to help people process trauma and reduce symptoms. Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral work involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety and depressive mood. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing helps people reduce the intensity of traumatic memories through structured processing techniques, and prolonged exposure teaches gradual, controlled facing of feared memories or situations to lower avoidance and fear responses.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michalle will collaborate with each client to choose which methods fit their age, history, and goals. Together they check progress and adjust techniques so the plan stays relevant and practical.
Online therapy offers flexibility across formats. Video calls allow deeper face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people maintain continuity of care while fitting therapy into real life.
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- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English