About Michal
Dr. Michal Jorgens is a licensed psychologist based in Minnesota who focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and ADHD. She brings 28 years of clinical experience and aims to make sessions feel straightforward and respectful.
Her manner is informal and centered on listening to each person’s perspective. She starts by learning what matters most to the client. Sessions are collaborative - she asks questions, reflects what she hears, and helps identify small changes that add up.
Background and approach
Practical tools may be introduced when they fit the client’s goals and daily life. Her work draws on several approaches, including attachment-based ideas, client-centered techniques, cognitive behavioral methods, and dialectical behavior strategies. She uses these tools flexibly rather than following a rigid formula.
That lets her adapt to problems like stress, sleep difficulties, coping with life changes, and issues tied to trauma or grief. Dr. Jorgens emphasizes the therapeutic relationship.
She aims to treat people with respect and to build trust over time. That focus supports deeper work on things such as self-esteem, intimacy-related concerns, addictions, and compassion fatigue. People who prefer a calm, conversational therapist often find her style approachable.
She works with individual adults and brings long experience to help clarify next steps, whether the need is short-term problem solving or longer-term personal growth.
Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care
Dr. Jorgens draws from attachment-based work and cognitive behavioral therapy to guide online sessions. Attachment-based approaches focus on relationship patterns and how early connections influence current feelings and interactions; this can help with intimacy issues, attachment concerns, and relationship strain. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and helps people try practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and ADHD-related challenges.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. She will listen to your goals and preferences, discuss different ways of working, and tailor the sessions to what feels most useful. That shared decision-making helps decide whether to emphasize skill-building, reflective work on relationships, or a mix of both.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, quick skill reminders, or support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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