About Michelle
Michelle Adler is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania with 18 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, LGBT-related concerns, relationship struggles, ADHD, and issues around intimacy, eating, sleep, and self-esteem. She emphasizes practical steps and steady support for everyday problems.
Michelle approaches therapy by treating each person as the expert on their own life. She looks for strengths a person already has and builds on them.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and realistic steps that fit day-to-day life. Her background includes nearly two decades of clinical work in varied settings across Pennsylvania. That experience informs how she helps with mood challenges such as bipolar disorder, anger, and coping with major life changes.
She also addresses career stress, compassion fatigue, and parenting concerns in simple, direct ways. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, blended family concerns, codependency, domestic violence, and family of origin problems. Michelle also works with first responder issues, gender dysphoria, and people on the autism spectrum when those topics affect functioning and relationships.
Therapy sessions may include coaching-style guidance alongside counseling. The goal is to make progress that feels useful and sustainable. Michelle supports people through setbacks and helps them develop tools for managing stress and improving relationships.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Michelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on building skills and improving daily functioning. One common approach emphasizes identifying strengths and setting clear, achievable goals; this helps with stress, anxiety, and motivation by breaking problems into manageable steps. Another approach centers on addressing trauma and relationship patterns by looking at how past experiences affect current reactions and teaching new coping strategies for more stable mood and healthier interactions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That process may involve trying different techniques and adjusting as progress is tracked together.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people connect face to face from different locations while phone sessions can be quicker check-ins or an option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit short conversations into a busy day or to check in between sessions. These formats provide flexibility to match therapy to a person's routine and comfort level.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English