Michelle Savage, LMFT

Practical approaches and online care

Michelle uses straightforward, evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address symptoms and everyday problems. One common approach involves skills-based work that teaches breathing, grounding, and stress management tactics to reduce anxiety and improve day-to-day functioning. These skills help when worry or overwhelm is limiting sleep, concentration, or relationships.

Another applied approach focuses on processing loss and trauma through steady, paced conversations and coping exercises. This helps people make sense of difficult events and build routines that reduce emotional spikes and help with grief or post-traumatic stress symptoms.

Finding the right way to work together is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose approaches that match their goals, needs, and comfort level, and will adjust the plan over time based on what helps most.

Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth sessions and reading visual cues, phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can suit brief updates or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to connect from different locations.