Michelle Gutierrez

Michelle Gutierrez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with five years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship shifts, depression, and life changes, and lists life purpose among her focus areas.

She uses practical conversation and evidence-informed strategies to help people sort through what feels stuck. Sessions often focus on clear skills - managing panic, improving communication, setting boundaries, and building day-to-day routines. Michelle names ADHD, compassion fatigue, and caregiver stress among concerns she addresses.

Her work draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, client-centered methods, and mindfulness. That means sessions blend values-based goal setting, thinking-pattern work, emotion regulation skills, and present-moment practices. She aims to make techniques usable between sessions.

Clients can expect a collaborative tone that emphasizes small, concrete steps rather than abstract talk. Typical topics include codependency, social anxiety, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and struggles around self-love. Michelle also supports people exploring women’s issues and LGBT concerns.

Her approach notes coaching skills alongside therapy to help people try new behaviors and track progress. People who feel unsure about next steps at work or in life can use sessions to clarify priorities, test choices, and develop coping strategies. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small action toward those values. Online sessions can use this approach to set goals and plan real-world experiments between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thinking patterns and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches concrete tools to change them. In a remote session, CBT work often includes behavior tracking and short exercises to practice during the week.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will help you choose methods based on your goals, preferences, and what feels doable. That selection happens together, and it can shift as needs change during care.

The therapist's profile does not list specific session formats. Please confirm the available formats before booking so you know how sessions will fit into your life. Online work can make it easier to schedule sessions around a job, reduce commute time, and allow shorter check-ins when a brief update is all that's needed. It also lets people try skill practice at home and bring notes or recordings into sessions for discussion.