About Michelle
Michelle North is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 13 years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and supports people facing life changes such as infertility, career shifts, or loss.
Background and approach
Michelle aims to provide steady, practical help in short, clear conversations. She uses an approachable, down-to-earth style and adapts each session to the person in front of her.
Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-oriented, with time spent identifying what matters most and small steps to try between visits. She listens for patterns shaped by family of origin, attachment, and past losses and helps clients apply what they learn to everyday life.
Her work draws on attachment-based ideas that look at how relationships shape feelings, client-centered practices that prioritize the person’s experience, and cognitive behavioral techniques to shift thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. She also brings perspectives from existential and Jungian approaches when people want to explore meaning, identity, and deeper inner conflicts.
Michelle has experience with a wide range of issues including ADHD, compassion fatigue, process addictions, fertility and hospice-related concerns, and seasonal mood changes. She often helps people rebuild self-esteem, improve communication, and find purpose after major transitions.
Sessions are offered in English and conducted online by video, phone, chat, or text messaging. Michelle works with each person to create a plan that fits their life and goals.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape emotional responses. Online sessions using this approach can help people notice patterns in how they connect and practice new ways of relating in everyday life. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s experience and priorities; the therapist follows the client’s lead and offers reflection and support to help clarify goals and choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through simple exercises and homework, which often work well across video or messaging formats because they are concrete and action-oriented.Finding the right approach is part of beginning work together. Michelle will listen to your concerns, discuss different methods, and collaborate on an approach that fits your goals, values, and pace. That process can include mixing techniques so sessions address both immediate coping and deeper meaning over time.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls approximate face-to-face conversation and let people read nonverbal cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good option when you prefer not to be on camera, and live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility for work schedules, caregiving responsibilities, or when travel would be difficult, while still allowing regular, consistent therapeutic work with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English