Michele Lando
Calm practical therapy for resilience
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michele
Michele Lando is a licensed clinical social worker who offers practical, trauma-informed support rooted in several evidence-based approaches. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), cognitive-behavioral tools, and attachment-focused work to help people manage stress, grief, and questions about identity. Michele writes plainly and focuses on clear steps to reduce overwhelm and increase daily coping skills.
She brings 13 years of clinical experience from California. Her practice emphasizes thoughtful listening and collaborating on goals that matter to each person.
Background and approach
Michele uses mindfulness exercises, emotion-focused techniques, and behavioral strategies to address low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related struggles, and grief. Michele also supports people navigating adoption and foster care questions, attachment concerns, caregiving stress, and chronic illness. She integrates somatic tools like brain-spotting alongside narrative and family-systems ideas to help people notice how their bodies and stories hold stress.
In sessions she identifies strengths, practices new breathing and grounding habits, and tries small experiments to change unhelpful patterns. The work balances direct skill-building with exploring important relationships and life transitions. Michele aims to create a steady, practical space where people can try new ways of coping.
She keeps language simple and focuses on what a person can do between sessions to feel more capable and connected.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Michele often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice what matters to them, accept difficult feelings, and take small committed actions toward valued goals. ACT can be useful for anxiety, low motivation, and coping with change.She also works from an attachment-based perspective that looks at how important relationships shape patterns of safety and trust. This approach helps when people want to improve emotional connections and respond differently in close relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michele will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and life circumstances, and then recommend techniques to try together. The choice of tools is collaborative and can change over time as needs evolve.
Online therapy makes these methods accessible via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. The range of formats offers flexibility for busy schedules, caregiving responsibilities, or days when in-person visits are difficult. Licensed professionals can use these options to practice mindfulness, teach coping skills, guide breathing and grounding exercises, and review homework between sessions.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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