Therapy with Michele

. With a warm, accepting and curious style, she has helped clients with challenges like depression, anxiety, stress, traumatic childhood events, self-doubt and narcissistic abuse. In her approach, Michele helps clients to understand the relationship between themselves and their situation—personal, societal and cultural—in order to create healing, self-compassion and personal growth. Depression, fear, and anxiety are some of the most common and uncomfortable emotions that we can experience at some point in our lives. Through counseling and treatment, Michele is able to help you recover motivation, perspective, and joy that you once had in your life

Michele uses Emotion Focused Therapy to work with intimate partners. This evidence-based method strives to improve partners’ communication and to diffuse negative patterns that get in the way of connection. Attending to partners’ attachment needs, she helps them to develop empathy and acceptance, and to deepen their commitment to the relationship. She has also studied in the evidence-based Gottman Method for couples therapy, and in methods to affirm and support neurodivergent partners navigating their cognitive differences.

Michele brings a straightforward, but sensitive approach to sex therapy, dealing with concerns like sexual function/pain, desire discrepancies, and feelings of self-doubt. She is affirming of LGBTQIA+ individuals and interests/lifestyles incorporating non-monogamy and kink. Michele’s goal is create a safe and accepting space for her clients to examine their sexual selves, release shame, process past events, and achieve greater satisfaction