About Michelle
Michelle Kisler is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 17 years of experience helping people navigate stress and anxiety. She aims to meet people where they are and offer steady, respectful support during hard times. Her approach is warm and straightforward so clients can talk about what matters most to them.
She uses practical strategies alongside one-on-one listening. Sessions focus on day-to-day coping skills, clearer thinking, and small steps that lead to change.
Background and approach
Michelle blends goal-oriented work with attention to each person’s background and values. Her practice includes help for trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and mood concerns such as bipolar disorder. She also offers coaching-style support for life transitions, executive functioning challenges, and self-esteem work.
Michelle pays attention to caregiver stress, compassion fatigue, and issues common to neurodivergent people. Michelle draws on client-centered counseling, cognitive behavioral tools, mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused methods. That mix lets her tailor sessions to practical problems and emotional healing.
She aims for clarity, usefulness, and changes clients can build into daily life. Michelle practices in Pennsylvania and works in English. She supports hearing impaired and intellectually disabled clients through adapted communication when useful.
Her style is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
How Michelle's Approaches Work Online
Michelle often uses client-centered therapy to build trust and make sessions feel focused on the person’s needs. That approach emphasizes listening, asking reflective questions, and helping people decide goals that matter to them. It is useful when someone needs a supportive space to sort through feelings and choices.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. CBT breaks issues down into small, manageable steps and teaches practical skills for anxiety, mood shifts, and stress. Mindfulness therapy is added when slowing down, noticing thoughts, and using breathing or awareness exercises helps reduce reactivity and improve coping.
Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to figure out what fits best based on goals, day-to-day needs, and personal style. Plans are adjusted as progress is made so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online therapy makes these approaches accessible through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging suit short check-ins, quick skill practice, or clients who prefer writing. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or school schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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