About Michele
Michele Lando is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in California. Michele brings 13 years of clinical experience and a trauma-informed, integrative approach to sessions. She is neurodivergent and LGBTQIA affirming, and she focuses on helping people manage grief, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, attention differences, LGBT concerns, and parenting stresses.
In sessions Michele draws on evidence-informed methods to tailor care to each person. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused and Attachment-Based work, and client-centered methods to address emotions and relationship patterns.
Background and approach
The aim is to help clients notice what matters, build skills, and take steps that match their values. Michele has additional experience supporting people facing abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, aging and geriatric concerns, autism and Asperger Syndrome, avoidant personality patterns, and body image problems.
She also works with caregivers dealing with stress, people living with chronic pain or illness, and those coping with codependency or control issues. Therapeutic tools include mindfulness practices, narrative work, and somatic approaches to calm the nervous system. Michele helps clients name strengths, practice new responses, and rebuild relational trust.
Sessions are practical and paced to each person’s needs. Clients connect with Michele through online formats. She offers phone, video, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to meet and keep therapy workable for busy lives.
Using attachment and acceptance approaches online
Michele often blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy with client-centered care. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for grief, self-esteem struggles, and managing distracting thoughts related to ADHD. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in relationships and helps people understand how early bonds affect current trust and closeness. This work supports those wanting more stable connections and better communication.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michele collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and life demands. Together they try approaches, check what helps, and adjust the plan over time so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for richer interaction and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can support ongoing reflection between sessions and make scheduling easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while fitting around work, caregiving, or health constraints.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English