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  • Online Sessions Anywhere in CA
  • In-person Sessions In Mountain View, CA
  • Accepting New Clients

Michelle Li, AMFT, APCC

Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist 13078,Registered Associate Clinical Counselor 11090

  • Level 2 TEAM-CBT certification has five levels based on training and mastery in TEAM CBT therapy skills— From Level 1 TEAM CBT therapist, through Level 5 TEAM-CBT Master Therapist & Trainer.
  • Outcome measures verifiedFeeling Good Institute Certified & Affiliated therapists use symptom assessment before and after every session to understand your improvement, identify stuck points, get feedback and make modifications that accelerate your recovery.
  • Lower fee, under supervision by Ryan Moeller , LMFT
Services
  • Individual Therapy (Age 18+)
  • Child Therapy (Under Age 12)
  • Telemental Health
  • Adolescent Therapy (Age 13-17)
I Work With
  • Adults (Age 18+)
  • Children (Under Age 12)
  • Adolescents (Age 13-17)
Specialities
  • Anxiety/Fears/Phobias/Worries
  • Cross-Cultural Identity
  • Depression
  • Family/Relationship
  • Grief and Loss
  • Parenting
  • School Performance
  • Self Esteem
About My Practice

 Excessive anxiety and depression or another form of distress may be robbing you of simple, everyday pleasures.  These weighty feelings have become or always were intrusive, occupying too much of your mental space. Yet, you wouldn’t be reading about my practice if you had no hope and determination, both critical elements to feeling better. Having an effective therapist also greatly impacts the therapeutic process and outcome. Finding the right match can often be very challenging. 

   I incorporate the evidence-based methods of CBT into a mindful and compassionate approach, emphasizing the client’s needs and unique life circumstances. I want to help you recover so that you can fully and joyfully embrace life, with its multifaceted experiences and opportunities. We’ll collaborate.  To ensure the therapy succeeds, you'll complete mood surveys and give me feedback each session and do brief assignments between them. 

 I treat children and teenagers, ages 5-18, college students, including first generation, and other adults. One of my passions is supporting caregivers of loved ones navigating severe mental illness. My background includes volunteering for more than two years for the National Association of Mental Illness (NAMI) as a trained support group facilitator for family and friends of people navigating schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and other relatively severe conditions. I continue to help caregivers find balance in their lives. I also see clients with those challenges who are in recovery. Finally, I enjoy working with people from multicultural backgrounds and the LGBTQIA+ communities, and neurodiverse individuals. I am especially effective with creative, imaginative people seeking to move beyond their emotional comfort zones.

 In addition to a counseling degree from Palo Alto University, my educational background includes a PhD in East Asian Studies from Princeton University (Japanese literature with minors in Japanese premodern history and Chinese and Japanese Buddhism). I've lived in China and Japan.  

Intro Video
Financial:
  • Average fee per session: $125
  • Free 15 Min Consultation

Publications & Media
Language Spoken: English, conversational Japanese
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2660 Solace Place, Suite D2
Mountain View, CA, United States