About Michelle
Michelle Tiger is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who focuses on practical, commonsense support. She uses straightforward talk to help people facing anxiety, depression, stress, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, and sleep problems. Her tone is calm and encouraging and she works with clients to set small, realistic goals.
Michelle brings four years of experience as a therapist alongside earlier roles in aging services, hospice, home care, and community re-entry.
Background and approach
That background informs her approach to caregiving, chronic illness, and life transitions. She also offers coaching around job searching and employment concerns. In sessions she uses client-centered methods to listen first and understand each person's priorities.
She then draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and mindfulness techniques to address thoughts, behaviors, and daily routines. Work often focuses on breaking unhelpful patterns and trying small changes that add up over time. Michelle also supports people dealing with trauma, addiction, grief, intimacy-related issues, and compassion fatigue.
She is an LGBTQ+ ally and helps clients navigate communication problems, commitment questions, and blended family dynamics. Her prior work in correctional settings and elder services shapes a practical, down-to-earth style. Clients can expect a collaborative process.
Michelle talks through goals, notices what works, and adjusts the plan together. Her aim is steady, manageable progress toward better sleep, more energy, clearer thinking, and improved relationships.
Evidence-informed approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them. It emphasizes values-based actions so clients can take small steps toward what matters, even when anxiety or grief shows up. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to improve mood and sleep. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and insomnia by breaking problems into manageable steps. Finding the right approach usually happens over the first few sessions. Michelle will work collaboratively with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean combining ACT, CBT, and client-centered listening to build a plan that feels doable. Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer check-ins. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter, focused conversation is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, coaching around job searches, or when someone prefers writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other daily responsibilities.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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