About Michelle
Michelle Harmolin is a licensed professional counselor in New Jersey who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. She also supports those coping with life changes, grief, addiction concerns, and compassion fatigue. Her style is warm and direct, focused on practical steps that can be used between sessions.
She uses plain language and a calm presence to help clients notice patterns that keep them stuck. Sessions often include goal-setting, learning new coping skills, and practicing clearer communication.
Background and approach
Michelle draws on mindfulness and skills-based work to reduce intense emotions and impulsive reactions. Her background includes eight years working as an LPC - licensed professional counselor - with people facing relationship and family problems, attachment concerns, and issues like codependency or abandonment wounds.
She emphasizes an affirming approach to gender and sexual identity and helps people who identify as LGBT navigate identity-related stress. Michelle blends client-centered listening with structured tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. She also uses motivational interviewing to support people making behavior changes related to substance use or other addictive patterns.
This mix aims to balance empathy with concrete strategies. Clients can expect a collaborative and paced approach. Michelle helps each person set small, achievable steps and checks progress regularly.
The work is practical and rooted in day-to-day life, not abstract theory.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Michelle often uses cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy in online work. CBT helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. DBT focuses on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships when feelings feel overwhelming.She also uses client-centered therapy ideas, which prioritize listening and understanding your experience. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences so the work feels useful and manageable.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let you see nonverbal cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for shorter check-ins, skill reminders, and ongoing support between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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