About Veronica
Veronica Michael is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 20 years of clinical experience. She listens closely and brings a calm, supportive presence to sessions. Veronica helps people sort through stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma, and grief in straightforward ways.
She focuses on practical steps that make daily life easier. Veronica helps people name the central issue and then works with them to try solutions that fit their situation.
How Veronica works
She emphasizes clear communication and emotional connection when that matters most. Her background includes work with mood concerns like depression and bipolar disorder, as well as intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, and caregiver stress. Veronica also supports people facing identity and LGBT-related concerns, chronic illness, eating struggles, and major life transitions.
Veronica uses approaches that center the client and their relationships. She draws on attachment-based ideas, emotion-focused work, and skills from cognitive and dialectical behavior therapies to shape sessions around each person's goals. She practices in California and holds the LMFT credential.
Sessions are offered in English. To start, a short matching questionnaire helps pair people with a therapist and schedule according to availability.
Veronica lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Veronica works with
The areas below are the ones Veronica selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Veronica's approaches translate to online work
Attachment-based work looks at how people connect with others and uses conversations to help rebuild safer, more trusting patterns. It is often useful for relationship worries, intimacy problems, and for people who feel stuck repeating the same hurtful patterns. Client-centered therapy focuses on making the session about the person's needs and pace, with the therapist listening closely and following the person's lead to build insight and self-direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors; it is practical for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with a person about their goals and preferences, then try methods that match those aims. Adjustments are made as needed so the work feels useful and realistic.
Confirm current session options before booking so you know which formats are offered. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It can also help people who need a simpler way to attend sessions while balancing appointments, caregiving, or work commitments.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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