Michelle has been at The Rio Rancho Family Counseling Center since July 2017. Her teaching gifts, education (she has a Masters in Early Childhood Education) and experience working with small children and their parents has been translated into her psychotherapy work with parents, couples, and families. While in her Marriage and Family Therapy Masters program she focused intensely on Internal Family Therapy, a core aspect of the therapy process at our center. As a result, when you work with Michelle, you will have the experience of someone who is highly seasoned and skilled with working with one’s inner child parts and who understands the need for validation, acknowledgement, and support. Clients find that Michelle’s warm sense of humor and ability to join them encourages deep inner resolve and inner cleaning. One reconnects with his own inner strengths of character and the willingness to provide a more stable and healthy life for self and his loved ones. It is not unusual for clients to find that they end therapy feeling as if they have grown up, and emerged more in keeping with the person they always dreamed they might become.

As a Clinical Supervisor, Michelle is nationally approved by AAMFT (American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy) and an approved supervisor with the New Mexico Counseling and Therapy Board, and the Board of Social Work. With her expansive clinical experience Michelle is dedicated to helping her clients and our staff grow. Her supervision approach emphasizes a collaborative and reflective process, empowering supervisees to become confident and effective clinicians.