Michele San Martin , LPC

Michele San Martin is a licensed professional counselor in Texas with 20 years of experience. She focuses on common concerns that affect daily life, such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, and parenting challenges. Michele centers sessions on each person's strengths and practical steps they can take right away.

She believes people know their own stories and brings listening and steady guidance to help them sort through what matters most. Sessions are aimed at building coping skills, improving communication, and easing the emotional load that comes from major life changes. Michele also addresses issues tied to trauma, compassion fatigue, sleep disruption, and intimacy-related struggles.

Her approach blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices. That mix helps identify unhelpful thoughts, practice new behaviors, and develop calmer routines. She also weaves in Jungian ideas and solution-focused strategies when exploring personal meaning and short-term goals.

Michele works with people dealing with adoption and foster care concerns, attachment and abandonment worries, body image, chronic illness and caregiving stress, and the fallout from divorce or blended family dynamics. She helps those facing career shifts, feelings of emptiness, and problems with anger or self-esteem.

People meet Michele for a collaborative process that aims to create realistic plans and steady progress. Her style is straightforward and supportive, with an emphasis on skills you can use outside sessions. She offers sessions in English and practices across Texas.

How Michele’s Approaches Work Online

Michele draws from client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy to help people change how they cope and think. Client-centered work focuses on listening, respecting each person's perspective, and building on their strengths to set achievable goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and manage mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Michele will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and day-to-day life. That collaborative plan can evolve as needs change, mixing short-term problem solving with longer personal exploration.

Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face work when depth of connection matters. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a simple check-in during a break. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick reflections, brief coaching, or ongoing contact between scheduled meetings. Together these options offer flexibility so people in Texas can continue care around work, family, and other responsibilities.