About Michelle
Michelle Wygant is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, low self-esteem, depression, grief, and trauma. She works with concerns such as eating and sleeping problems, anger, ADHD, and life changes like divorce or caregiving stress. Michelle writes plainly and meets people where they are in moments of overwhelm.
She uses a warm, collaborative style and focuses on practical steps you can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Michelle draws on client-centered work to listen and understand each person's experience. She also uses cognitive behavioral methods to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Michelle has around 15 years of counseling experience and has supervised counseling interns and master's-level clinicians.
Her background includes a master's degree in community counseling and an educational specialist degree. That mix of practice and teaching informs how she structures sessions and tracks progress. In sessions she helps clients develop coping tools, improve communication, and set reachable goals.
For people dealing with grief, trauma, or parenting stress, she blends trauma-focused techniques with motivational strategies to support change. The pace and focus are set together, so each plan fits the person's needs. Her practice accommodates different ways of meeting - video, phone, live chat, and text - so therapy can fit a busy life.
Michelle aims to make therapy feel like a partnership where the client’s voice guides the work.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and understanding the person’s experience. The therapist offers empathy and reflection to help clients feel heard and to identify what matters most to them. This approach is useful for people facing grief, identity questions, and life changes because it starts from the person’s goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice thoughts and patterns that keep problems going and then try practical changes. It often involves short exercises and skill-building to reduce anxiety, manage mood, improve sleep, or shift unhelpful behaviors.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist collaborates with clients to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Plans can be adjusted over time based on what feels helpful and what produces small changes.
Online sessions can take place by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English