About Michele
Michele Manyko-Baranowski is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 10 years of experience. She focuses on anxiety and stress while also helping people manage anger, relationship concerns, and self-esteem struggles. Michele draws on practical techniques to help people feel steadier day to day.
She uses a collaborative style that centers the person's own strengths and goals. Michele listens first, and then offers tools people can try between sessions.
Background and approach
These tools often target thought patterns, everyday habits, and communication skills that get in the way of feeling better. Michele also supports people dealing with attention and focus challenges, including impulsivity and workplace difficulties. She helps people break tasks into smaller steps and practice routines that improve concentration and follow-through.
Social anxiety and phobias are another area she addresses with stepwise practice and coping strategies. Her approach blends client-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing. That mix aims to make change feel doable rather than overwhelming.
Michele helps people name realistic goals and take steady steps toward them. Her work is practical and straightforward. Michele encourages small wins and builds on them over time.
For someone feeling stuck by anxiety, stress, or relationship tension, she offers calm guidance and hands-on methods to move forward.
Combining client-centered care and CBT for online work
Michele uses client-centered therapy to begin each online relationship. That means she listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people identify their own strengths and priorities. This approach helps clients feel understood and steer the work toward goals that matter to them.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, appears often in her work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and habits, then testing new ways of thinking and acting. It is useful for anxiety, stress, social fears, and workplace challenges because it turns problems into concrete skills to practice.
Motivational interviewing complements those tools by helping people find their own reasons to change. It supports shifting from uncertainty to action, especially when motivation feels low or inconsistent. Michele combines these approaches so each person gets a plan that fits their needs and pace.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Michele works collaboratively to choose methods that match a client's goals and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made. Clients can expect open conversation about what helps most and why.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and practice dialogue. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break at work. Live chat and messaging make brief check-ins and tracking progress easier between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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