About Michele
Michele Farabaugh is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience in Pennsylvania. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and life changes. Michele aims to create a calm space where concerns can be talked through and practical next steps are identified.
Michele uses a mix of approaches that match what each person needs. She listens for the patterns that keep problems repeating and helps clients try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on improving communication, setting boundaries, and building self-worth. <br Her background includes long-term work with adults facing relationship troubles, caregiving strain, blended family dynamics, addiction recovery, and midlife transitions. She brings experience in mood disorders, codependency, and recovery from domestic violence into the work she does with individual clients. This helps her recognize common challenges and tailor interventions accordingly.
Clients who prefer a values-informed perspective may find her style familiar, as Michele draws on her Christian-informed viewpoint when it fits the person in front of her. She does not impose beliefs; instead she uses what is meaningful to the client to support growth. Practical tools are mixed with reflective conversation in sessions.
Michele helps people set small goals and track progress between meetings. Her aim is steady, realistic movement toward better coping, clearer communication, and stronger self-love.
Approach and online options for therapy
Michele works from client-centered and solution-focused perspectives. Client-centered work means the person sets the pace and the focus; the therapist listens deeply and reflects what matters most to the client. Solution-focused work emphasizes small, practical steps and short-term goals to reduce anxiety and stress.She also draws on psychodynamic ideas when helpful, looking at patterns that repeat across relationships and life stages to uncover useful insights. These approaches can help with mood concerns, relationship struggles, caregiving stress, and transitions by combining understanding with action.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Michele will collaborate with each person to decide which methods feel most useful based on needs, goals, and preferences. That process can shift over time as progress is made or situations change.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people meet face to face when schedules or travel make in-person visits hard. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make regular contact and flexible scheduling easier for busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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