She is an EMDRIA certified therapist and a certified yoga instructor, and she is the practice's supervisor of record. Her caseload is adults, couples, and families, in the Laguna Beach office and by telehealth across California.

Michele co-founded the practice in 2020 with David Lindquist, LMFT, whose approach still informs how we work.

Michele starts with trust rather than technique. Her view is that very little useful work happens until a person feels safe enough to say the true thing, so early sessions are spent building that before anything else is asked of them.

From there the work is often about patterns: the reactions that fire before you have decided anything, and the triggers underneath them. EMDR is the method she uses most for that, and she works with the mind and body together rather than treating the two as separate problems.

She also draws on attachment-based work and cognitive behavioral therapy, and chooses between them according to the person rather than running everyone through the same sequence.

Michele graduated from the Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology in 2018 and has been in practice for nine years.

She co-founded Third Street Counseling in 2020 with David Lindquist and is the practice's supervisor of record, which means she carries clinical responsibility for the associates' work as well as her own caseload.

She is also a certified yoga instructor, which is where a good deal of the mind and body emphasis in her clinical work comes from.