About Michelle

Michelle Gee, AMFT, has had longstanding interest in the power of narratives and our story-formed existence. After years of lay counseling experience, she studied psychology and religious studies at Westmont College, before receiving her master’s degree in psychology from California Southern University. She has worked with diverse populations ranging in severity in both community counseling center and short-term residential settings.

Michelle pursued training in EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) with Dr. Philip Manfield in 2022, and has found it to be an excellent, specialized modality for working with single-event and complex trauma, as well as other applications. She has also received advanced training in sensorimotor psychotherapy by Dr. Janina Fisher.

Michelle’s therapeutic style is warm, compassionate, and active, often sprinkled with a sense of humor—all while remaining trauma-informed and client-centered at the core. Her therapeutic approach is informed by psychodynamic, somatic, narrative, attachment-focused, and CBT modalities. For clients of the Christian faith interested in biblical integration, Michelle offers deep exploration of the narrative arc of Scripture and implications of the Gospel on our view of the self, others, the world, and God.

Outside sessions, she enjoys exploring the Central Coast with her family, being outside as much as possible, travel, exercise, and live music.