About Michele
Michele Farabaugh is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 25 years of experience helping people through major life changes. She focuses on practical support for depression, grief, relationship strain, and stress. Michele uses straightforward conversation to help people find clearer ways forward.
Her background includes long-term work with mood disorders, addiction recovery, and issues rooted in family of origin. She also offers help for caregiving stress, blended family concerns, and challenges that arise in midlife.
How Michele works
Michele brings an understanding approach that aims to restore daily functioning and emotional balance. Sessions often center on building coping skills and improving communication. Michele helps clients set concrete goals, try new behaviors, and practice different ways of relating.
She also addresses self-esteem, forgiveness, and commitment questions in simple, usable steps. Her approach draws on client-centered listening, psychodynamic thinking about patterns, and solution-focused techniques for quick changes. Systemic ideas guide work around tangled family interactions and role expectations.
Michele tailors these approaches to each person’s situation rather than following a fixed formula. People describe practical gains from this mix of reflection and action. Michele emphasizes small, steady changes that add up over time.
Her Pennsylvania practice supports English-language sessions across several online and phone formats.
Michele lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Michele works with
The areas below are the ones Michele selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
How Michele’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience. In practice this means the therapist follows the client's lead, reflects feelings, and helps people find their own solutions for issues like grief or low self-esteem.Psychodynamic Therapy looks at patterns that repeat across relationships and time. Online sessions use gentle exploration of those patterns to help people recognize where habits start and how to make different choices.
Solution-Focused Therapy zeros in on concrete goals and small steps. This approach is useful for stress, anxiety, and short-term problems because it encourages quick, practical changes that can be tested week to week.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options and together the client and therapist decide which methods fit current goals and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversational work, phone sessions can fit a work break or those with less bandwidth, and chat or text allow brief check-ins and ongoing support without scheduling a full session. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy lives and caregiving responsibilities.
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