Michele Frances Purvin, LCSW-S, LCDC
Founder, Owner and Psychotherapist (She/Her/Hers)
19 years of experience
Welcome! I am so glad you are here. I am the founder, owner, psychotherapist, clinical social work supervisor, social media magician, and human resources specialist of this practice. My hope is to provide you with a supportive, safe space where you can develop into the person you want to be and find answers. We will collaborate to become aware of your thoughts and feelings about a problem, and how to look at those problems in different, more manageable ways.
My Story
As a Texas native, I grew up in a bi-cultural, tri-lingual Swiss German American household in the United States and Switzerland. I learned at an early age to transcend the boundaries in a rapidly changing world. As a non-traditional student at the University of Texas, my bachelor’s degree was focused the study of Germanic languages and cultural diversity. My professional and personal experience has taught me to deeply respect and appreciate the diversity of the human experience and value the importance of this diversity in contributing to creating a compassionate, productive, non-discriminatory society.
I earned my master’s degree in social work from Texas State University in 2006. I obtained my license in Clinical Social Work (LCSW) in 2011 and my Chemical Dependency Counselor license (LCDC) in 2012. After gaining experience working in hospice care and drug treatment centers, I opened my practice in beautiful downtown San Marcos on the historic Square in 2015 and I have had the privilege and honor to work with so many on their path to healing and personal growth.
I strongly believe in importance of my mental health practice to our community and to continue to develop the field of social work’s ethical and professional future. In the last few years, my professional focus has shifted to providing clinical supervision with a focus on education and mentoring of competent, ethical, master level social workers who are prepared for beginning clinical social work practice.