Michelle North, LMFT
California · 13 years in practice
Michelle North is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 13 years of experience who helps people navigate anxiety, stress, relationship challenges, grief, and life transitions.
License and registration
- LMFT, California
- 87958 · expires February 2027
- NPI
- 1952603037 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 13
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Michelle
Michelle North is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 13 years of experience who helps people navigate anxiety, stress, relationship challenges, grief, and life transitions. She supports clients facing intimacy concerns, sleep problems, self-esteem struggles, ADHD-related challenges, and work or career pressures. She also works with people processing fertility and adoption issues, compassion fatigue, and questions about life purpose.
Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. She listens first to understand each person's history and daily struggles.
Background and approach
Then she helps set doable goals and chooses methods that match what feels most useful for that person. Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking, along with deeper reflection when that helps. Michelle integrates several ways of working.
She draws on client-centered conversations to make space for each person's perspective. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. She also applies cognitive behavioral techniques for managing anxious thoughts and behaviors, and existential and Jungian perspectives when clients want to explore meaning, identity, or life purpose.
She practices in California and holds a CA LMFT credential - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Sessions are offered in English and are available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. International clients are not currently accepted.
Michelle aims to make therapy practical and approachable. She helps people sort painful feelings, try new behaviors, and find clearer direction. Many clients come away with tools for daily life and a steadier sense of what matters next.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Michelle lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Coping with life changes
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Michelle names
- Existential Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapeutic approaches shape online work
Michelle often uses Existential Therapy to help people explore meaning, identity, and choices when life feels uncertain or empty. That approach is useful for grief, life purpose questions, and big transitions. She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationship patterns influence current struggles, which can help with intimacy, communication, and codependency. Client-Centered Therapy is another pillar of her work and focuses on listening deeply and following the client’s pace to clarify goals and next steps.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Michelle works together with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. That collaborative planning can change over time as progress is made or new issues appear.
Online therapy offers flexibility across several formats: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or busy schedules and let people use the format that works best for specific moments or topics.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Michelle commonly address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, sleep problems, self-esteem, ADHD-related challenges, career strain, and coping with major life changes.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She listens, helps set clear goals, and combines practical strategies with reflective conversation.
What is her clinical background?
She has 13 years of professional experience working with a range of concerns, including grief, infertility, and life transitions.
What credentials and region apply to this practice?
She is a CA LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in California.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions may be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How are fees and payments handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Michelle?
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