About Michelle
Michelle Torres M is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of experience helping adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She practices in California and offers straightforward support for people trying to make sense of difficult feelings and life changes.
She often works with clients who are untangling the effects of past abuse or trauma and wanting to reclaim their sense of self. She also helps people who feel stuck in people-pleasing patterns, have trouble setting boundaries, or struggle with intimacy and relationships.
Background and approach
ADHD is listed among her areas of focus and is addressed alongside other concerns like grief, career strain, and compassion fatigue. Michelle uses an attachment-based lens to notice how early relationships shape current patterns. She also draws on client-centered ways of working that prioritize each person’s pace and goals.
Sessions tend to focus on building insight and practical skills for everyday life. Her background as a minority and her awareness of cultural and systemic influences inform her work. She pays attention to how family traditions and social pressures affect thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
This perspective helps her tailor support to each person’s history and circumstances. In sessions Michelle aims to help people feel seen and understood while learning tools they can use outside the therapy hour. She frames change as a step-by-step process and partners with clients to set achievable goals and try new ways of coping.
Attachment and Person-Centered Care Online
Michelle uses attachment-based ideas to help clients see how early relationships shape current reactions and patterns; this approach can be useful for people coping with trauma, intimacy struggles, and relationship difficulties. She also uses client-centered methods that prioritize listening, empathy, and the client’s own goals to guide each session.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle treats therapy as a team effort and will discuss which methods feel most helpful based on a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts the plan over time so clients can try options and notice what helps.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit different schedules and needs. Video is good for deeper conversations and nonverbal cues, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging suits brief check-ins or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or busy days while still getting regular support from a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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