- CBT based
- Self esteem focus
- 28 years experience
About Michele
Michele Rowland-Bird is a licensed clinical social worker with 28 years of experience in California. She listens without judgment and helps people who are struggling to feel more capable and steady. Many clients come for help with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, or the fallout from loss and trauma. Michele emphasizes practical steps that people can use between sessions.
Her approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing those ideas against reality. She teaches Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, in plain, step-by-step ways so clients can try new responses and notice what changes. When thoughts shift, emotions and behaviors often follow, which opens the door to safer choices and new routines.
Michele’s clinical background includes work with children, families, and adults, and experience with people who have been involved in the foster care system. She describes therapy as a partnership where small, achievable steps build momentum. Sessions include skill practice, gentle challenge of rigid thoughts, and planning for real-life situations.
She also supports people coping with relationship stress, parenting strain, career pressures, grief, and self-harm concerns. Michele does not provide messaging therapy or couples therapy. Her practice aims to help people find clearer thinking, steadier moods, and more confident choices.
To begin, prospective clients complete a brief matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on the therapist’s availability. Michele encourages those ready to take a first step to reach out and start the matching process.
Her approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing those ideas against reality. She teaches Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, in plain, step-by-step ways so clients can try new responses and notice what changes. When thoughts shift, emotions and behaviors often follow, which opens the door to safer choices and new routines.
Michele’s clinical background includes work with children, families, and adults, and experience with people who have been involved in the foster care system. She describes therapy as a partnership where small, achievable steps build momentum. Sessions include skill practice, gentle challenge of rigid thoughts, and planning for real-life situations.
She also supports people coping with relationship stress, parenting strain, career pressures, grief, and self-harm concerns. Michele does not provide messaging therapy or couples therapy. Her practice aims to help people find clearer thinking, steadier moods, and more confident choices.
To begin, prospective clients complete a brief matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on the therapist’s availability. Michele encourages those ready to take a first step to reach out and start the matching process.