About Us

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Michelle Meyer has been providing counseling across various environments, including churches, community health organizations, children's centers, homeless shelters, and private practice, since 2016. She earned a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy from Western Seminary. Additionally, Michelle earned a Master of Arts in Theological Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in Christian Counseling from Liberty University and has undertaken substantial scientific, evidence-based continuing education. This extensive educational background enables her to counsel clients effectively and impartially as they navigate various challenges, regardless of their non-faith or religious beliefs.

Michelle is committed to empowering individuals by uncovering the underlying factors contributing to their feelings and behaviors. She collaborates with those motivated to enhance their lives and pursue personal growth. Her diverse experience includes adults on personal journeys, couples aiming to strengthen their relationships, engaged partners preparing for marriage, and young people facing developmental challenges. Individuals or couples frequently seek her guidance when relationships require adjustments or when significant struggles arise. She also assists children and teens dealing with emotional issues arising from external pressures such as school demands, friendship issues, and family dynamics. Many of her clients have grappled with feelings of low self-worth, shame, and complex relationships. A central focus of her work is addressing trauma originating from childhood emotional wounds, which can impede the ability to form emotional connections. Furthermore, she supports clients who have experienced recent traumatic events, including natural disasters, loss of loved ones, emotional abuse in domestic scenarios, spiritual abuse, and moral injuries from military service. These factors can often lead to anxiety, fear, strained relationships, and internalized negative beliefs, along with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms such as flashbacks, nightmares, and also issues like binge eating and substance abuse.

Ignoring issues can lead to repression, which may manifest as deeper emotional struggles. These can take various forms, including unresolved pain, gambling addictions, substance abuse, and disordered eating. Individuals facing these challenges often respond emotionally with depression, anxiety, feelings of isolation, uncontrolled anger, spiritual disconnection, and various emotional triggers. As these struggles persist, they can create a sense of imbalance, disconnection, and self-criticism, ultimately adversely affecting personal relationships and job performance. Navigating life, regardless of age, fundamentally revolves around seeking harmony and balance amid the intricate challenges of being human. Adversity experiences, whether past or present, can profoundly impact thoughts and behaviors, influencing all aspects of an individual's life. Through a collaborative approach, Michelle helps her clients uncover the hidden layers linked to their current challenges, allowing them to process and release what has held them back. She empowers her clients to cultivate healthy thoughts and feelings, reassess their priorities, and enhance interpersonal communication. Michelle assists clients in creating opportunities for renewal and growth, facilitating their re-engagement with a revitalized sense of vitality and enabling deeper connections with themselves, their relationships, and their professional lives.

Michelle has advanced training in areas including healthy attachment, trauma (including PTSD), neuroscience-informed somatic therapy, polyvagal therapy, and issues such as narcissistic abuse, addiction, and disordered eating (including cycles of binge eating and dieting). Her therapeutic approach is integrative and holistic, combining insight-oriented and polyvagal-informed somatic awareness, walk-and-talk therapy, spiritual integration, ecotherapy walk-and-talk therapy, emotionally focused couples therapy, emotionally focused individual therapy, and integrative couples counseling, all of which enhance both marital relationships and sexual intimacy. She employs evidence-based techniques grounded in neuroscience to address trauma, adult childhood attachment injuries, and their effects on brain and body interactions, emotions, and social connections. Play therapy is also a component of her practice for children, allowing them to work through issues through play rather than standard talk therapy. 

In her practice, Michelle employs a variety of therapeutic modalities supported by her extensive training and experience. These methods include Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for managing emotions and improving interpersonal skills, as well as somatic therapy, which focuses on the mind-body connection to release stored trauma. She also specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and its individual variant, EFIT, which encourages emotional bonding and addresses attachment issues. Psychodynamic therapy is another element of her work, investigating unconscious processes and how past experiences inform current behaviors. Play therapy provides children with an avenue to express their emotions through play. Additionally, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) aids clients in challenging and reframing negative thought patterns, and ecotherapy (walk-and-talk therapy) integrates movement into the therapeutic process, contributing to both mental and physical well-being. Michelle is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), a technique that processes and desensitizes traumatic memories within the nervous system. She focuses especially on healing strategies for complex trauma resulting from narcissistic abuse. She aids individuals struggling with binge eating and chronic dieting, supporting them in building healthier relationships with food and body image. Through these varied approaches, Michelle seeks to enhance her clients’ internal and external resources, supporting their journeys toward healing, rest, and joy. Taking a holistic approach, Michelle invites clients to delve into the underlying reasons for their symptoms, promoting a deeper grasp of their emotional and relational dynamics. Alongside this self-reflection, she highlights practical methods for relaxation, stress reduction, and greater somatic awareness, aiding clients in finding relief in their everyday lives. Recognizing the vital mind-body connection, her office serves as a nurturing space for clients to process pain and pursue healing.

Michelle Meyer is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in Oklahoma and California (License No. 13977) and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California (License No. 136108). She offers counseling services in Elgin, Oklahoma, and online via telehealth, welcoming individuals and couples— including youth and children— who are eager to initiate positive changes in their lives. Michelle holds multiple certifications and is working towards additional qualifications.

Certifications Overview: 

· Certified Veterans Health Administration VHA Guided Health Imagery

· Certified VA CBT 

· Currently in internship: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) from EMDRIA: 

· Certified Narcissistic Abuse Treatment Clinician (NATC) through Evergreen Certifications

· Certified Complex Trauma Certification Training Level 1 & 2 (CCTP-I & CCTP-II) through Evergreen Certifications

· Certified Mastering Polyvagal Theory for Trauma Professionals Level 1 (CCTP) through Evergreen Certifications

· Certified Binge Eating and Chronic Dieting Professional (CBECDP) through Evergreen Certifications

· Certified Addictions-Informed Mental Health Professional (CAIMHP) through Evergreen Certifications

· Certified Sex Therapy Informed Professional-Informed (CSTIP) through Evergreen Certifications

· Certified Facilitator PREPARE/ENRICH for the engaged and some married couples

· Currently in internship: Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) Level 1 & 2: from IEEFT

· Certified Dialectical Behavior Therapy Professional (C-DBT)

· Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP) through Evergreen Certifications

· Grief Therapy Advanced Certification (CAGCS) through Evergreen Certifications

Upcoming Training

· Certified Child and Adolescent Trauma Professional (CATP)

· Certified Youth Mental Health Specialist (CYMHS)

· Certified Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Specialist (ASDCS)

· ADHD-Certified Clinical Services Provider (ADHD-CCSP)

* Michelle intends to gain training with immigration assessments to provide limited assistance to undocumented people in crisis.

The most recent non-certified training Michelle received:

Walk and Talk Therapy; Mindfulness & Nature-Based Therapeutic Techniques for Children; Embracing Your Life After 50 to Find Fulfillment, Purpose, and Joy; Parent the Child You Have, Not the Child You Were; Transforming Outcomes with The Gottman Method; Treating Stressed Out Couples; Overcome Resentment, and Thrive Amid Day-to-Day Tensions; Calming the Anxious Mind & Body: Create New Neural Pathways for Regulation with Integrative CBT; Terry Real's 2-Day Couples Therapy Training: Getting Started with Relational Life Therapy; Yoga and Mindfulness Practices to Teach Self-regulation and Social Skills to Children; Working Towards Cultural Competency for Jewish Communities; Many hours of military culture training through the VA Train website; Treating Trauma with Integrative Relationship Therapy: A 2-Day Virtual Training Featuring Tammy Nelson; Couples Therapy Intensives: A New Approach for Fast and Effective Results; Telehealth Treatment of Addictive Behavior with Janina Fisher; The Art and Science of Psychopharmacology: Essential Tools for Treating Anxiety, Depression, Bipolar Disorder & Psychosis; 2-Day Intensive Workshop: Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Transformational Approaches to Treating Complex Trauma with Janina Fisher; Integrating Play and EMDR: Treating Complex Trauma in Children and Families; Written Exposure Therapy (WET) for PTSD; EMDR Interventions for Recent Trauma Recovery with Dr. Laurel Parnell: Proven Techniques for the Immediate Aftermath of Traumatic Events; 2-Day Trauma Conference: The Body Keeps the Score-Trauma Healing Through the Senses with Bessel van der Kolk, MD; EMDR & Parts Work for Treating Complex Trauma: Somatic Techniques to Decrease Defensiveness and Facilitate Trauma Processing; Healing the Body’s Response to Attachment Trauma With Peter A. Levine, PhD and Dr. Diane Poole Heller; Treating Adult Children of Relational Trauma: Experiential Interventions to Heal the Inner Child and Create Authentic Connection in the Present; 2-Day Emotional Eating & Body Image: Trauma-Informed, Weight-Inclusive Strategies to Address Chronic Dieting, Binge Eating & More; Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) for Addictions: Trauma-Informed, Compassion-Based Interventions for Substance Use, Eating, Gambling and More; Upcoming training: Treating Complex Trauma with Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy Presented by Frank G. Anderson, MD

Subscription Journals Michelle is subscribed to:

Counseling Jewish Americans: Considerations for Practice; JMU Scholarly Commons: An overview of Jewish beliefs and traditions for counselors; Journal of Counseling Practice: Responsive Counseling in Jewish Orthodox Communities; Psychiatric Times; American Journal of Psychiatry; Psychotherapy Academy; Journal: American Journal of Psychotherapy; Neurology LIVE; EMDR Consulting Digest; Psych Congress Network