About Michelle
Michelle Harmolin is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in New Jersey. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, anger, and low self-esteem. She also supports work on relationship concerns, parenting strain, grief, and addiction-related issues.
Michelle uses direct, compassionate care to help people take practical steps forward. Michelle focuses on building clearer communication and stronger coping skills. She helps clients recognize unhelpful patterns such as codependency, avoidance, or problems with control.
How Michelle works
Sessions often center on developing everyday tools for handling impulses, reducing shame, and managing emotions. Her work combines client-centered conversations with concrete skills from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. She also uses mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing to help people find momentum and direction.
These methods are explained plainly and adapted to what each person prefers. Michelle brings eight years of clinical experience to her practice in New Jersey. Her approach attends to issues connected to attachment, abandonment, family conflict, and identity questions.
She aims to help people increase self-awareness, improve relationships, and move toward more satisfying daily life. Sessions are practical and goal-focused and paced to each person's needs. Michelle emphasizes small, achievable changes and regular check-ins on progress.
The tone in sessions is respectful and direct, focused on real-world results.
Michelle lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
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
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Online support options
Approaches that work in online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person and their goals. It involves open listening and supporting people to find their own solutions and build self-acceptance. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replaces them with more effective patterns; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing mood. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills that help with impulsivity, anger, and relationship challenges.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try different methods, and adapt techniques based on what feels most helpful. Clients and the therapist work together to track progress and change course when needed.
Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers practical flexibility. Video calls are well suited to in-depth conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a work break or a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or to use shorter, focused exchanges for updates and quick coping tools.
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