Michele Waldman – Individual and Couples Counseling

I wish I could give Michele more than 5 stars! We LOVE HER! Michele saved my marriage and changed both the lives of my husband and I for the better. We owe so much to her and are grateful to have had her in our lives. I don’t consider her a couples counselor anymore, I consider her a dear friend. She even let us bring our dog to sessions when we felt like we needed him for extra comfort. She’s such a loving and fun person. :)
3 years ago my husband and I were newlyweds struggling with intimacy, alcoholism, depression, communication, chronic illness, romance, teetering on divorce… I found Michele online and felt really comfortable with her after our phone consultation, and decided to give her a try. I had no idea how hard things were going to get for my husband and I. Shortly after beginning couples counseling with Michele I got attacked, my husband developed suicidal depression, I developed a chronic illness… we were barely hanging on. There were times when our visits with Michele felt like the only thing keeping our sanity together.
Michele always made us feel like we were heard, respected, loved and stronger than we felt we were, as individuals and as a couple. I loved her sessions because she never made us feel like she was just going through the motions with us, and like we were just another paycheck to her. She would call us when she was concerned, she was the first person I called when my husband told me he was thinking about suicide, she celebrated and laughed with us when we had good news, she remembered all the tiny details of our stories, and always took my call when I felt overwhelmed and scared about what to do.
Michele taught us how to communicate to each other, she pushed us in a very gentle yet productive way to see our patterns and feel safe to disagree with her and each other, she gave us homework when we were in hard times and prepared us for not needing her anymore when we started to get better. When I felt like I needed a break from the stress of our marriage, she walked us through a short separation, setting ground rules and expectations, and making sure it was a productive time apart.
We went to Michele for 2 years, it’s been about 6 months since we «graduated» from her sessions, and I can’t believe how different of a couple we are now. I feel like my marriage is the strongest, best thing in my life. Like no matter what I can lean on him and he can lean on me… my husband and I feel more mature and better as individuals, and confident. No more late nights worrying myself sick about whether I should stay or go, no more self-​help books and feeling the fear that I made a mistake getting married. Words cannot express how grateful I am that we found Michele, and I cannot recommend her enough.
Thank you for everything Michele! We’ll miss you!

Michele is a friend and colleague. I often seek her consultation and support because I know that she always has valuable wisdom to offer. Michele has an enormous heart and I trust that it comes through in her work as a therapist. Highly recommended!

Michele is fantastic. I highly recommend her for anyone who is looking for someone who is truly on your side. Not only is it clear that Michele’s heart is in her work, the insight and feedback she offers is deeply impactful. Michele has helped me to know myself more deeply and helped me to find the inspiration and motivation within myself to pursue creating the life I want. Anyone who has the opportunity to work with Michele is blessed and so so very lucky.

I’ve gone to maybe five or six therapists, individually and as a couple, in San Francisco over the past decade, for various issues and reasons (mostly relationship related) and I’m very pleased to have been referred to Michele’s practice.
Her office is comfortable and inviting (temperature perhaps a bit too warm at times, though this could be attributed to the ‘man’opause thing I have going on when talking about myself) and I appreciate the disarming way in which she begins each session, allowing me at my pace to discuss my current state of affairs and helping me with insight and reflection around my monkey mind full of thoughts and additionally weening out the emotional context of which I’m usually not aware.
I’ve been seeing her individually thus far, perhaps at some point will bring my SO in for couples work. So far I feel the interaction has been productive, and if my SO and I are still together after my normal jumping off point of three years, I’ll definitely know progress has been made.
Plus a much more convenient location for me — easy to find parking.

Michele is a deeply compassionate and caring counselor, and is a joy to work with. Her non-​judgmental and open personality makes people feel extremely safe about disclosing their innermost thoughts and secrets, and she graciously normalizes things that one may think is unique to them.
I have reached out to Michele numerous times throughout the years during critical points in my life and have always felt that she deeply listened and offered insight and practical steps towards moving forward in my personal and professional life.
And she does so with great sincerity (and sometime a bit of humor) which makes her so good at what she does.

I recommend Michele Waldman totally. Her insight and wisdom are exceptional, as is her untiring capacity to listen and understand, and to get to the heart of the issue with both sensitivity and candor. Michele is patient and deeply intelligent, and brings a warmth that is unusual and welcomed in this profession.
I went to her for individual therapy, but I know several people who have gone to her for marriage counselling and been profoundly happy with her. Couples who are not married are equally as thrilled with Michele.
Easy to talk to, completely tuned-​in; she cares, she brings relief. You can count on her to transform pain to tranquility.