Michele San Martin, LPC

Michele San Martin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 20 years of experience. She meets people where they are and helps them handle stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship concerns. Michele emphasizes strengths and practical steps so people feel more capable with everyday challenges.

She offers straightforward, person-focused care. Sessions focus on identifying what matters to the client and building skills that fit daily life. Michele uses cognitive behavioral approaches to help change unhelpful thoughts and actions, along with client-centered listening to make room for each person's story.

Her work also draws on mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity and on solution-focused techniques to set clear, attainable goals. Jungian ideas about meaning and inner patterns appear when clients want to explore deeper personal themes. The result is a mix of short-term tools and longer-term reflection depending on what a person needs.

Michele has supported people facing trauma, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, chronic illness, and major life transitions. She helps with intimacy-related issues, sleep problems, career stress, and attention-related concerns such as ADHD. Her approach is flexible and tailored to everyday realities.

People who connect with Michele can expect calm, direct guidance and practical strategies. She encourages small, realistic changes and keeps the pace aligned with each person's comfort. The aim is clearer thinking, steadier emotion, and better functioning in life.

How Michele’s approaches translate to online care

CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. Online CBT sessions often include practical homework and short skill-building exercises to use between meetings, useful for anxiety, low mood, sleep problems, and attention difficulties.

Client-centered therapy centers on listening, empathy, and helping people find their own solutions. In remote sessions Michele will offer reflective listening and gentle prompts so clients can clarify values and strengths in their everyday life.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. Michele works with each person to decide whether to emphasize CBT skills, mindfulness practice, goal-focused steps, or deeper exploration. She adjusts plans to match goals, comfort level, and progress over time.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video helps preserve visual cues for deeper conversation, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports short reflections and progress notes between sessions. These options give flexibility and help keep momentum while working toward clearer thinking and steadier emotion.