Allie Michie AMFT

Hi! I’m Allie Michie (she/her/hers), an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist. I see clients in-person in Santa Barbara, CA, and virtually throughout California.

I work with couples, individuals, and teens moving through anxiety, grief, and the kind of life transitions that make you stop and check in with yourself: a career that isn’t working anymore, a relationship changing shape, a family reorganizing itself, or trying to figure out what you actually want life to look like from here.

With couples, that might mean rebuilding connection, creating shared emotional communication and vulnerability as you plan for the next steps of life, or it might mean parting ways with more clarity and respect. With individuals, it’s often burnout, relationship shifts, healing tender parts of your story that feel scary or unknown, finding your way back to yourself during seasons of change, identifying evolving values and how they may or may not serve you, relationship shifts and future planning, or the various forms of loss that come with living. With teens, it’s everything from family dynamics and friendship stress to grief, life transitions, identity questions, and the weight of growing up that isn’t acknowledged nearly enough.

Grief runs through a lot of this work, and often not only the loss of a person. I hold space for the quieter losses too: an old version of your life, a relationship, or the person you thought you’d be by now.

My work is rooted in Attachment Theory, Person-Centered, Family Systems, and Mindfulness-based approaches. Essentially, I work relationally and at your pace. I hold an M.S. in Counseling Psychology (MFT Emphasis) from California Lutheran University.

If any of this resonates and you’d like to connect, I’d love to hear from you.