About Michelle
Michelle Tarbell is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Texas with 21 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or big life changes. Michelle uses a direct, client-centered style so people can shape the work to their needs.
Michelle aims to make sessions simple and practical. She helps people set clear goals and takes an active, collaborative approach to problem solving.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on immediate coping skills, communication, and improving daily routines that reduce stress and anxiety. Her background includes long-term independent practice work and many years supporting people through trauma, abuse, and relationship challenges. She has substantial experience with parenting concerns, blended family issues, adoption and foster care topics, and caregiver stress.
Michelle also addresses issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, and feelings of emptiness. In the therapy room she works with individuals and teens, helping them sort through emotions, rebuild self-esteem, and handle life transitions. Her approach is practical and person-forward, with attention to what feels most useful in day-to-day life.
She also addresses struggles like anger, codependency, dissociation, and compassion fatigue. People who choose Michelle usually want straightforward sessions focused on real change. She meets people where they are and helps them find manageable steps toward feeling steadier and more in control.
Client-centered care delivered online
Michelle practices a client-centered approach that puts the person's priorities first. Sessions are guided by what the client wants to work on, with the therapist asking questions and reflecting back to help clarify goals and next steps. This approach can help when dealing with anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, grief, or relationship tensions.In addition, Michelle often uses solution-focused work to identify small, achievable changes. That means sessions may concentrate on practical steps and coping strategies you can try between meetings. For people facing life changes, parenting strains, or trauma recovery, this combination aims to make progress feel manageable.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and she will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs and preferences. Clients and the therapist set goals together and adjust the direction as progress is made so the work stays relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls support face-to-face conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for brief check-ins, and messaging suits ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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