About Michelle
Michelle Zehner is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage anxiety, stress, trauma, and depression. She brings four years of professional experience and holds LCSW, MD and LCSW-C credentials listed as PA LCSW and MD LCSW-C. Michelle speaks plainly and aims to make the first step feel easier for someone who is worried or overwhelmed.
Her sessions focus on listening and creating a nonjudgmental space where people can talk through difficult feelings.
Background and approach
She works collaboratively to set small, realistic goals and to build on strengths. Conversations are practical and paced to match each person’s comfort level. Michelle uses client-centered methods to focus on what matters most to the individual and to guide conversations by the client’s priorities.
She also integrates Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, as a tool for addressing traumatic memories when appropriate. Motivational Interviewing is used to support people who want to change behaviors or increase motivation. She has helped with issues that include coping with life changes, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, addictions, and compassion fatigue.
Additional areas of focus include body image, hoarding, obsessions and compulsions, social anxiety, and post-traumatic stress. Michelle offers sessions in Pennsylvania and conducts work in English. She provides several formats for meeting, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How Michelle's Approaches Translate to Online Care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on following the client's lead, listening closely, and helping people set goals that matter to them. Online sessions allow that same conversational focus whether on video or phone.EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is used to help process traumatic memories by pairing focused attention with guided techniques; in online work the therapist adapts the paced techniques to video or phone formats as appropriate. Motivational Interviewing helps people build readiness for change by exploring ambivalence and identifying personal reasons to move forward; it works well in short or longer online conversations.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level, and will adjust the plan over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for conversational depth, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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