EMDR Therapist Michelle Gagnon, LMFT

My approach to therapy is warm, collaborative, and tailored to your unique needs. I integrate evidence-based methods—including EMDR, IFS, CBT, DBT, Polyvagal Theory, and Solution-Focused Therapy—to help you understand yourself, heal from past experiences, and build practical tools for lasting change.

My practice is especially welcoming to LGBTQIA+ individuals, creatives, writers, and artists, and professionals navigating anxiety, OCD, ADHD, trauma, relationship concerns, life transitions, or creative blocks (including writer’s block). I especially enjoy helping clients who feel stuck—often high-functioning on the outside but overwhelmed or uncertain internally.

I work with individuals, couples, and families, and have experience with complex cases including dual diagnoses and trauma. Earlier in my career, I worked at the Los Angeles LGBT Center, providing crisis intervention, counseling, and long-term support for LGBTQIA+ youth and adults experiencing homelessness and foster care—an experience that continues to shape my trauma-informed, affirming approach.

My goal is for clients to leave with more than symptom relief: a deeper understanding of themselves, greater confidence, and tools they can rely on long after therapy ends.