About Michelle
Michelle Harmolin is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, depression, and grief. She supports those coping with life changes, addictions, relationship problems, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue. Michelle brings a direct and steady presence to each session.
She focuses on building self-awareness and stronger communication skills. Sessions often include practical tools to handle strong emotions and reduce overwhelm. Michelle works with concerns like attachment difficulties, codependency, isolation, and issues around identity and gender dysphoria.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and straightforward. She uses client-centered conversations to understand a person’s priorities, then adds techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy as needed. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing also appear in sessions to help people clarify goals and stay motivated.
Michelle has eight years of experience as an LPC in New Jersey. That background informs how she tailors plans to fit each person's life and schedule. She aims to help people leave sessions with one or two things they can try before the next meeting.
People who work with Michelle can expect clear, practical steps and space to talk through painful feelings. She emphasizes small, steady changes over time and partners with clients to track progress and adjust work as needs evolve.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and priorities. It involves listening closely, reflecting what matters to the client, and shaping work around their values and pace. This approach helps when someone needs space to understand feelings or make a personal change.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions. It teaches practical skills to test unhelpful thinking, change patterns, and build coping strategies. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills. It helps people handle intense emotions, reduce impulsive behaviors, and improve relationships through step-by-step practice.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on how well the tools are working and what the client wants to focus on.
Online therapy with video, phone, live chat, or text messaging makes regular sessions easier to fit into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people stay consistent with therapy while balancing work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English