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Online therapist

Michele San Martin

Supportive Texas counselor for life and family concerns

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Credentials
LPC
Experience
20 years
Licensed in
Texas
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Michele

Michele San Martin is a licensed professional counselor in Texas with two decades of experience. She speaks plainly and focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strains, grief, parenting challenges, or the long shadow of trauma. Michele frames therapy as a practical partnership where the client’s strengths guide the work.

She highlights courage as the first step and offers steady support along the way. Her style centers on listening closely and responding with approaches that match each person’s needs.

Background and approach

Michele often uses client-centered methods to build trust and collaboration. She also applies cognitive behavioral tools to help people change patterns that keep them stuck. Michele brings experience helping families and people facing life transitions, compassion fatigue, sleep struggles, and concerns about intimacy or self-esteem.

She addresses complex situations such as adoption and foster care, blended family dynamics, aging concerns, chronic illness, and grief. Practical coping skills and clearer communication are frequent goals in her work. Sessions aim to be straightforward and focused.

Michele helps clients set realistic steps and then checks what works. She combines insight-oriented ideas with concrete techniques so clients leave with usable strategies. Clients can expect a calm, respectful presence that emphasizes the client’s own knowledge of their life.

Michele supports people through changes, loss, and moments when patterns need shifting, helping them move toward more manageable days.

Approaches That Translate Well to Online Work

Michele commonly blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy to help clients make concrete changes. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a trusting, nonjudgmental relationship and lets the client guide the topics and pace. It helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort through feelings and choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets thinking and behavior patterns by teaching practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and address sleep or stress problems.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Michele will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and daily life to choose or combine methods that fit. That collaborative decision helps tailor sessions so they address parenting stress, grief, relationship communication, or other priorities in clear, usable ways.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules and to follow up between meetings with brief messages or chat support. Michele uses these formats to offer steady, practical care across different situations and locations within Texas, helping clients keep momentum between appointments.

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.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.

Mindfulness Therapy

Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Michele address?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, depression, grief, parenting and many related concerns listed in her profile.
What is her general therapy style?
Michele uses a client-centered, collaborative approach and blends practical techniques to help people change unhelpful patterns.
How much experience does she have?
She holds 20 years of professional work experience as a licensed clinician in Texas.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - practicing in Texas with license TX LPC 60473.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Work can occur via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin if I want to connect?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

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Experience
20 years
Licensed
Texas
Languages
English

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