About Michelle
Michelle Adler is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) working in Pennsylvania. She has 18 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety, work through trauma and abuse, and address LGBT-related concerns. Michelle emphasizes a respectful, practical approach that centers each person's strengths.
She listens for what matters most and helps clients set clear, do-able goals. Sessions focus on small, concrete steps people can try between meetings. Michelle encourages skill building for coping, improving sleep and eating patterns, and managing intense emotions like anger or shame.
Background and approach
Her work also covers relationship and intimacy-related concerns, parenting strain, career questions, and challenges tied to attention differences or mood conditions. Michelle pays attention to attachment and abandonment issues and how family of origin and blended family dynamics affect current life. She supports people dealing with compassion fatigue and first responder stress.
Michelle frames therapy as a collaborative process. She treats clients as the experts on their own stories while offering structure and practical tools. This includes short-term problem solving and longer-term work on patterns that keep causing distress.
People meet with her through a range of online formats that fit busy schedules. Michelle aims to make therapy usable and straightforward so clients can apply changes to everyday life.
Approaches that guide online work and practical benefits
Michelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on helping people change unhelpful patterns and build coping skills. One approach emphasizes identifying and changing behaviors that maintain anxiety and stress, teaching step-by-step strategies to reduce worry and improve daily routines. Another approach centers on processing the effects of trauma and abuse at a pace set by the client, with a focus on grounding skills, emotional regulation, and restoring a sense of control.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to identify which techniques fit their needs, goals, and comfort level, and adjusts the plan over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that feels helpful, while phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging provide regular check-ins and brief coaching between sessions. Together these options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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