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Michele San Martin

Michele San Martin, LPC

Therapist · Texas · 20+ years of experience

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  • Client-centered approach
  • Practical coping tools
  • Mindfulness and CBT

About Michele

Michele San Martin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. Michele works with clients on common struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship concerns. Her approach begins by treating each person as the expert on their own life. Michele listens first, then helps people identify their strengths and options. She uses practical tools to address sleep, anger, parenting strain, career crossroads, and midlife changes. Michele blends a few different ways of working to fit each person’s needs. She draws on client-centered conversations to build trust, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, and mindfulness to reduce reactivity. These are brought together in simple steps people can try between sessions. Over two decades Michele has worked with people coping with trauma, compassion fatigue, adoption and foster care issues, blended family challenges, chronic illness, and attachment concerns. She often helps those facing abandonment, commitment worries, body image issues, and life transitions. Her style is straightforward and collaborative. Michele helps clients set small goals and track what changes. She supports people navigating midlife decisions, career shifts, and the hard feelings that come with loss or major life change.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesTrauma and abuseDepressionCompassion fatigue

Also works with

Family conflictsGriefIntimacy-related issuesSleeping disordersParenting issuesAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesCoping with life changesADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAging and geriatric issuesAttachment issuesBlended family issuesBody imageCaregiver issues and stressChronic pain, illness, and disabilityCo-morbidityCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDivorce and separationEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFirst responder issuesForgivenessGender dysphoriaGuilt and shameHospice and end-of-life counselingImpulsivityInfidelityJealousyLife purposeMen's issuesMidlife crisisMood disordersMulticultural concernsNarcissismPanic disorder and panic attacksPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPrejudice and discriminationProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Self-loveWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Jungian TherapyMindfulness TherapySolution-Focused TherapyInternal Family SystemsSystemic Therapy

Experience

20+ years

Credentials

Texas

Languages

English

How Michele’s Approaches Translate to Online Support

Michele often draws on client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening and building a respectful working relationship. This approach helps people feel heard and safer exploring difficult topics like grief, relationship concerns, or midlife uncertainty.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT offers clear strategies to break cycles of anxiety, improve sleep habits, manage anger, and try new behaviors between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Michele will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. She adapts tools over time so they fit daily life and the pace someone prefers.

Because the biography does not list specific session formats, confirm available online options before booking. Many people find that remote sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy routine, support shorter check-ins during a workday, or avoid travel time. Licensed professionals can help plan how to use remote sessions for homework, mindfulness practice, and step-by-step behavior changes without promising a particular format.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Michele address?

She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, anger, sleep problems, career questions, and midlife changes.

How would you describe her therapeutic style?

Michele uses a collaborative, client-centered style and adds practical techniques from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness approaches to help people change habits and manage emotions.

What is her professional background?

She has 20 years of professional work experience supporting people with a broad range of life challenges and transitions.

What credentials does she hold and where is she based?

Michele holds the LPC credential as a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas and practices in that state.

Can sessions be conducted in other languages or internationally?

Sessions are offered in English and she is not currently accepting international clients.

Which session formats are available?

Confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not specify which formats are offered.

How does payment work and what does it cost?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

What are the steps to begin working with her?

Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.

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