Santa Cruz Psychologist
Individual, Couples and Family Therapy
Dr. Michelle Franklin is a clinical psychologist in Santa Cruz county CA. She provides individual and couples therapy; relationship, family, and marriage counseling; divorce mediation and collaborative divorce coaching; co-parenting mediation, parent education, and Enneagram typing and coaching.
About
Michelle Franklin Ph.D.
I help clients deal with their current crises by developing solutions to resolve them. I help empower my clients to attain their personal life goals, to achieve a greater sense of well being, to enjoy more loving relationships, and to live fuller more rewarding lives. I have been providing psychotherapy counseling, and coaching services to clients in the Santa Cruz and the greater SF Bay Area for the past thirty years plus.
Services
Individual Psychotherapy
Short-term therapy helps clients deal with an immediate issue such as divorce, problems with children and adolescents, death, substance abuse etc. In-depth therapy helps clients achieve long-term personal growth resulting in greater happiness and more satisfying relationships.
Couples Counseling
Helps couples to understand the dynamics of their relationship, promotes better understanding of each other’s differences, and more effective communications. The results are a more loving, accepting and intimate relationship.
Relationship Therapy
Teaches specific tools to improve relationship dynamics between parents and children, blended families, co-workers and peers.
Family Therapy
Teaches specific tools to improve relationship dynamics between parents and children, blended families, and extended family members..
Parent Education
Educate parents on child development and effective behavior management, individualized for each child’s specific needs.
Enneagram Typing
Learn your own Enneagram type, subtype and movements through interview with Dr. Franklin. Dr. Franklin’s methods have been refined over decades and are more accurate and revealing than online testing. Determine the Enneagram types of important people in your life and use these as the basis for powerful Enneagram Coaching.
Enneagram Coaching
Greatly assists clients in understanding their own personality type and that of important people in their lives. This knowledge provides insight into understanding strengths, challenges and motivations in themselves and others. This knowledge yields tools which can be used to greatly improve relationships.
Divorce Mediation
Psychologist participation can help moderate the intense emotions of divorce allowing the couple to focus on the practical aspects of the dissolution in a way that is fair and can minimize expense.
Collaborative Divorce
Is less traumatic and costly than litigation. Each spouse’s attorney, the psychologist and other professionals (e.g. accountant, parenting specialist) are committed to fairly represent both clients. Dr. Franklin is an active member of the Santa Cruz Divorce Solutions.
Co-parenting Mediation
Is a child-focused process that helps divorcing parents agree upon and document how their children will be raised in separate households.
Trauma Recovery
Dr. Franklin utilizes EMDR, a short-term therapeutic technique, to treat Post-Traumatic Stress in her clients. Dr. Franklin also uses Internal Family Systems (IFS) as an effective technique in treating trauma.