About Michele
Michele San Martin is a licensed professional counselor in Texas with 20 years of experience. She focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and manage anxiety so daily life feels more manageable. Michele speaks plainly and helps people take small steps toward steadier mood and clearer thinking.
She centers sessions on each person's story and strengths. Michele uses straightforward tools to address relationship strain, family conflict, trauma and abuse, and grief.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing career stress, parenting challenges, sleeping problems, anger, and feelings of emptiness. Her approach blends talking, skills practice, and grounded reflection. Michele draws on client-centered methods to follow what matters to the client, and uses cognitive techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
She also brings mindfulness and solution-focused ideas to help people build daily habits and set realistic goals. Michele respects that change takes time and courage. She helps people break down problems into manageable steps and tracks progress along the way.
Conversations cover both immediate coping strategies and longer-term patterns that influence mood and relationships. People who want a clear plan and compassionate listening may find this approach useful. Michele works to make sessions feel practical and relevant so people can try new ways of handling stress, improve communication, and reconnect with what they value.
Approaches that guide online work
Client-centered therapy is about focusing the work on what matters most to the client. The therapist listens closely, reflects concerns back, and helps people identify their own strengths and next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, uses practical exercises to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and anger. Mindfulness-based practices teach simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and increase calm in daily life.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose techniques that match the client's goals, preferences, and day-to-day reality. That means together they may try a few methods and adjust what they do based on what helps most.
Online formats used include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options offer flexibility so therapy can fit work, family, and other routines while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English