About Michelle
Michelle Adler helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and LGBT-related concerns. She also supports those coping with attention challenges, intimacy questions, eating or sleeping problems, and career or life transitions. Michelle is a licensed professional counselor, LPC, practicing in Pennsylvania with 18 years of experience.
She asks questions and listens closely to understand each person's story. Michelle believes people know their lives best and brings a steady, practical presence to sessions.
How Michelle works
She focuses on small, manageable steps that fit into daily life rather than long lists of tasks. In sessions she guides people through identifying what is most important to them. Michelle helps build skills for handling anger, improving self-esteem, and managing mood shifts such as bipolar symptoms.
She also addresses complex situations like domestic violence, attachment and abandonment wounds, and caregiving or first responder stress. Parents and caregivers can find support for parenting strain, blended family challenges, and family of origin issues. Michelle also works with people facing identity questions such as gender dysphoria and those navigating co-occurring conditions like autism and mood disorders.
Her approach is collaborative and goal-oriented. Michelle offers coaching-style tools when needed and helps people develop practical coping strategies for everyday life. She aims to make therapy accessible and relevant so clients can move toward clearer decisions and more satisfying daily routines.
What Michelle works with
The areas below are the ones Michelle selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
Approach and online care that fit your life
Michelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach is skills-based work that teaches tools for managing anxiety, anger, and mood fluctuations; these tools help with day-to-day coping and stress reduction. Another approach centers on exploring attachment and abandonment patterns to improve relationships and intimacy by identifying repeated patterns and trying different choices in relationships.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Michelle will work with each person to figure out which methods match their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they prioritize immediate concerns, plan small steps, and adapt methods over time if something isn't helping.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video allows a more conversational session, phone calls can be simple check-ins or work around low bandwidth, live chat offers a quick way to process emotions in the moment, and text messages let people check in between sessions or receive short coaching-style prompts. These options provide flexibility for different schedules and communication styles.
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