Hi, I’m Michelle!
I’m Michelle Meuser, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. I help children, teens, adults, and families work through trauma, chronic stress, behavior concerns, family conflict, and patterns that have been hard to change.
My work begins with the belief that symptoms and behavior usually make more sense when we understand what a person has been carrying, adapting to, or trying to survive. When children are melting down, teens are shutting down, adults are exhausted, or families keep repeating the same painful conflict, there is often a deeper story underneath.
Therapy with me is about slowing things down enough to understand what is happening and what kind of support is actually needed. My approach is relational, trauma-informed, and grounded in nervous-system regulation, but the goal is practical: helping people feel safer, more connected, and more able to move forward.
I look beyond surface symptoms to understand the patterns underneath — the child whose behavior reflects overwhelm, the teen who has learned to stay guarded, the adult who is capable and responsible but tired of surviving through overthinking, over-functioning, or shutting down, and the family caught in patterns that no longer make sense from the inside.
Therapy with me is not about forcing insight, handing out generic coping tools, or asking people to perform wellness. It is about creating enough safety, clarity, and support that meaningful change can take root.
You do not have to know exactly where to start. That is part of what I help with. When everything feels connected — stress, behavior, family patterns, trauma, school struggles, relationship strain, or the weight of having coped for too long — I help make sense of what is happening and find the first step that actually fits.
Background & Clinical Experience
My work with children, adults, and families spans more than 35 years and includes caregiving, advocacy, education, crisis intervention, community-based services, clinical practice, supervision, and private practice leadership.
Before becoming a therapist, I worked in domestic violence shelters, transitional housing programs, special education, developmental disability services, crisis counseling, and community-based advocacy. These experiences continue to shape my approach today.
I do not view symptoms or behaviors as isolated problems. Instead, I look at what a person, child, family, or nervous system has been asked to adapt to—and what support, safety, and connection may be needed for meaningful change.
As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, clinical supervisor, and founder of Stillroot Therapy Group, I specialize in trauma, attachment, nervous system regulation, child and adolescent development, parent support, family systems, and complex relational patterns.
My approach is relational, trauma-informed, and integrative, with a focus on helping individuals and families create lasting change through safety, regulation, and connection.
Education, Training & Professional Focus
Michelle Patricia Meuser, LMFT #139567, holds master's degrees in Counseling Psychology and Human Behavior and a bachelor's degree in Psychology.
Her advanced training includes EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), sand tray therapy, DBT-informed approaches, trauma-responsive care, ACEs-informed treatment, crisis intervention, and the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics.
Michelle works with children, adolescents, adults, and families, with particular focus on complex trauma, parent support, relational repair, nervous system regulation, and clinical supervision. Her goal is to help people understand the deeper patterns beneath symptoms and relationships so that meaningful, lasting change becomes possible.
