- Strengths-focused
- Goal-oriented
- Collaborative approach
About Michelle
Michelle Adler is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Pennsylvania. She helps people who are feeling stressed or anxious, dealing with trauma or abuse, navigating LGBT-related concerns, or facing relationship and intimacy challenges. Michelle frames therapy as a partnership and starts by listening to each person’s story.
With 18 years of experience, Michelle uses practical methods to address everyday problems. She helps clients notice their strengths and build on them. Sessions focus on concrete steps that fit into daily life rather than abstract theory.
Michelle also supports people with attention differences, mood concerns such as bipolar disorder, and struggles with eating, sleeping, or self-esteem. She works with issues around parenting, career stress, compassion fatigue, and managing life transitions. Additional focuses include attachment and abandonment concerns, codependency, and first responder stress.
Her approach is collaborative and goal-oriented. Michelle helps clients set realistic goals and track small changes over time. She emphasizes skill-building for coping and improving emotional regulation.
People who choose Michelle can expect a straightforward, respectful style. She encourages clients to bring their questions and priorities to each session. The work is paced to the individual and aimed at increasing confidence and day-to-day functioning.
How evidence-based approaches translate online
Michelle draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills and practical change. One common approach she uses helps people learn coping skills for anxiety and stress, such as breathing, grounding, and step-by-step behavioral changes to reduce avoidance. Another useful method emphasizes tracking emotions and behaviors to spot patterns and make small adjustments, which can help with mood swings, attention challenges, and relationship patterns. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle treats therapy as a collaborative process and will work with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they try methods, review what helps, and adjust the plan as progress is made. Online therapy can make attending sessions easier to fit into a busy life. It can reduce travel time, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and let people meet with a therapist from different locations within the same state. Because session formats were not specified in the biography, confirm the current session options before booking to know what is offered. The focus is on making therapy practical and accessible so skills learned in sessions can be used in everyday situations.Areas of focus
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Michelle commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, LGBT-related issues, relationship and intimacy concerns, and related problems like sleep, eating, and self-esteem.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is practical and collaborative. She listens first, then helps set small, achievable goals and teaches coping skills for everyday life.
What experience does she bring to sessions?
She has 18 years of professional work experience helping people with a wide range of emotional and behavioral concerns.
What credentials and location are listed for this therapist?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Pennsylvania.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English only.
Can international clients work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin therapy?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.