About Michelle
Michelle Kisler is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania with 17 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, mood shifts, ADHD, and other life changes. Michelle aims to make the first step easier by listening closely and responding with practical guidance.
Michelle uses straightforward methods that fit each person’s needs. She draws on client-centered work to follow the client’s pace and priorities.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and replace it with clearer coping choices. Mindfulness techniques teach simple ways to calm a busy mind in everyday moments. Her background includes long-term work with mood disorders, trauma, caregiver strain, and issues tied to neurodiversity such as autism and Asperger syndrome.
She also supports people dealing with guilt, shame, isolation, and life purpose questions. Michelle works with individuals facing traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress, and compassion fatigue. Sessions aim to be practical and goal-focused when needed.
Solution-focused strategies and motivational interviewing are used to clarify small next steps and build forward momentum. Michelle balances that with a sensitive, accepting stance for harder emotional work like grief or trauma recovery. Therapy can include planning for daily routines, improving self-esteem, or learning tools to manage bipolar symptoms and executive functioning.
She offers help for parents struggling with the demands of caregiving and for young adults at life transitions. Michelle provides services in English and works with people in Pennsylvania.
How her approaches adapt to online care
Michelle often uses Client-Centered Therapy to shape sessions around each person's priorities, listening closely and following the client's pace. That approach helps when someone needs to talk through feelings or decide what matters most in short or longer-term work.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT sessions online can include practical homework between meetings, clear goal-setting, and tracking small changes that add up over time.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Michelle will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, then adjust methods as needs evolve. That collaborative planning helps make sure tools fit daily life and personal schedules.
Online formats offer flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or mobility concerns. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports brief reflections between scheduled meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to try different ways of working until the best fit is found.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English