About Michele
Michele Caban is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 35 years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression.
Background and approach
Michele emphasizes the client’s own knowledge of their life and builds on existing strengths. She speaks plainly and offers steady guidance for people feeling overwhelmed.
Her work combines practical strategies and listening. Michele uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different responses.
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help clients clarify values and take manageable steps toward them. Attachment-based thinking appears in her work when relationship patterns matter.
That helps when people want to understand how early bonds shape current connections. Mindfulness practices are woven in to help with grounding and reducing reactivity.
Michele has supported people through grief, life transitions, and complicated relationship concerns. She also addresses caregiver stress, blended family challenges, communication problems, infidelity, and multicultural issues.
Her approach is direct but warm, aimed at practical change rather than labels. Therapy starts with listening to what matters most to the person seeking help.
Michele helps set clear goals and offers tools you can use between sessions. Her California licensure, long experience, and calm manner inform the work she does with individuals.
If you are ready to begin, the first step is a short intake and a conversation about what you want to change. From there she and the client plan a path forward together.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters most and take small, meaningful steps toward those values. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, and life transitions where motivation and direction feel stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching practical skills to change reactions.Finding the best approach is part of the work. Michele will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That process may mix techniques from different approaches and adjusts as progress unfolds.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful when face-to-face conversation matters. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy schedule. Live chat or text-based messaging is useful for shorter check-ins, brief updates, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options offer flexibility so therapy can fit into everyday life and changing routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English