About Michelle
Michelle Kotch is a licensed professional counselor in New Jersey with 25 years of clinical experience. She focuses on common but heavy concerns like stress, anxiety, grief and depression. She also helps people facing parenting challenges, ADHD, addictions, relationship tension, family difficulties, and low self-esteem.
Michelle starts by listening closely and treating each person as the expert on their life. She looks for practical strengths to build on and helps clients find steps that feel doable.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward language and keeps sessions focused on real problems and real solutions. Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person. Michelle helps people sort priorities, develop coping skills, and practice new ways to respond to difficult feelings.
Sessions often include concrete tools and short-term goals that can be tested between meetings. Over a long career she has worked with many kinds of struggles, which gives her a broad perspective on what helps people change. Her style is calm, direct, and supportive.
She encourages small experiments that create clearer choices and gradual progress. Michelle understands that reaching out can feel hard. She welcomes questions about how therapy works and what to expect.
If someone wants to try a practical, strengths-based approach, she helps them map a path forward and adjust the plan as needed.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Michelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills and real-world change. One common approach emphasizes building practical coping skills for anxiety and stress - it teaches step-by-step strategies to manage worry, breathing, sleep, and daily routines so symptoms feel more manageable. Another approach centers on grief and loss work, helping people name feelings, honor what’s been lost, and find ways to carry forward with meaning while handling reminders and anniversaries.Choosing the right method is a team effort. Michelle will work with each person to identify goals, try approaches that match those goals, and adjust plans based on what helps most. The process is collaborative and paced to the client’s comfort and needs.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit varied schedules and preferences. Video works well for a normal session feel, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make it easier to keep consistent work on problems while fitting sessions around work, family, and daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English