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Michele San Martin, LPC

  • Experience20 years
  • LocationTexas
  • Focus areasStress and Anxiety, Relationship, and Trauma and abuse
  • Therapy approachesInternal Family Systems and Client-Centered Therapy
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About Michele

Michele San Martin is a licensed professional counselor in Texas who brings 20 years of clinical experience to her work with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship and family challenges.

Background and approach

She frames clients as the experts of their own stories and helps them draw on existing strengths to navigate difficult transitions, loss, caregiving strain, intimacy concerns, and other life changes. Her practice integrates Internal Family Systems with client-centered listening and practical methods such as cognitive behavioral and mindfulness-informed techniques.

Michele’s approach emphasizes collaboration and curiosity, using tailored strategies to address symptoms like sleep disruption, anger, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue while also attending to broader issues including adoption and foster care, attachment and blended family dynamics, chronic illness, and career-related stress. She supports people in exploring meaning and rebuilding coping resources at their own pace.

Clients seeking a therapist who values respectful partnership and a blend of reflective and skill-based work will find Michele’s style approachable. She combines empathy with structured tools to help people move toward greater balance and wellbeing within the context of their daily lives.

Integrating Internal Work and Practical Tools Online

Online appointments allow Michele to combine Internal Family Systems work with client-centered and cognitive behavioral strategies in ways that fit each person’s goals. Internal Family Systems focuses on understanding parts of the self and how those parts interact, which can be helpful for issues like trauma, anxiety, and patterns in relationships. Client-centered therapy emphasizes a nonjudgmental, empathic stance that helps people feel heard and supported while they explore concerns and build insight. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offers clear, structured techniques to address unhelpful thinking and behaviors and is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress-related symptoms.

Michele approaches treatment as a collaborative journey, helping clients discover which combination of methods feels most useful for their situation. Together they assess needs, set goals, and adapt interventions over time so the work matches personal preferences and real-world demands.

Online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging provide flexibility for people balancing work, family, caregiving, or health limitations. These options make it easier to maintain continuity between sessions and to access care from different locations, while allowing therapists to apply experiential, reflective, and skills-based practices in ways that suit each client’s schedule and communication style.

Frequently asked questions

Which concerns does Michele commonly address?
Areas of focus include stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and family conflicts, grief, intimacy issues, sleep problems, parenting and career stress among others.
What is Michele’s therapeutic style like?
Her work emphasizes respectful collaboration and strengths-based listening, combining client-centered support with practical techniques from CBT and mindfulness as needed.
How long has she been practicing?
Michele has two decades of professional experience working with people on a wide range of emotional and relational challenges.
What credentials and location are on record?
She is an LPC licensed in Texas with licence number TX LPC 60473 and maintains her practice in that state.
Does Michele work in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are provided in English, and she is not accepting international clients at this time.
Which session formats are available?
Clients can meet via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what fits their needs.
How are fees and payment structured?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are needed to begin working together?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist’s listed availability.

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

Licensed

Texas

Languages

English