Michelle Magee-Lopez, LMFT
Therapist focusing on relationships and life transitions
About Michelle
Michelle Magee-Lopez is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and parenting concerns. She works with issues like grief, trauma, addiction, self-esteem, anger, and problems tied to identity and discrimination.
Background and approach
Michelle aims to make therapy a calm, straightforward space for people who feel stuck or overwhelmed. She draws on six years of clinical experience and a background in theatre arts to make sessions engaging and practical.
Michelle blends conversation with creative tools when that helps someone try new ways of relating and coping. Her work tends to be down-to-earth and focused on small, useful changes clients can notice between sessions.
Michelle uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to each person. She also uses narrative and solution-focused approaches to help clients rewrite unhelpful stories and spot workable steps forward.
Existential ideas inform conversations about meaning, choices, and life transitions. Clients can expect a collaborative style where the therapist listens first, then offers options that match a person's goals.
Michelle pays attention to cultural and social factors that shape someone’s experience, including prejudice and multicultural concerns. She supports parents working through parenting and blended family issues, and young adults facing life changes.
Michelle holds LMFT licensure in California and Nevada and offers sessions through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. She encourages people to take the first step by completing a short matching questionnaire to find a good fit.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Michelle often uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening closely and following what matters most to the person. This approach helps people feel heard and guides sessions by their priorities rather than a fixed plan.She also applies narrative therapy to help people examine and reframe the stories they tell about themselves. That can be useful for issues like shame, cultural stress, family of origin problems, and identity concerns. Solution-focused therapy appears in sessions as short-term goal-setting and practical steps to make small changes that add up.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, then try methods that fit. If something isn’t working, adjustments are made so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues during deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates or ongoing support between sessions to track progress and try new strategies.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California, Nevada
- Languages
- English