About Michelle
Michelle Kisler is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 17 years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and major life changes. She offers steady, nonjudgmental guidance and practical strategies that fit into everyday life. Michelle focuses on helping clients reduce overwhelm, build coping skills, and find clearer direction when things feel uncertain.
Michelle blends practical techniques with a warm, client-centered stance. She listens first and helps people set concrete goals.
How Michelle works
Sessions often include skill-building for anxiety and mood management, coaching for life transitions, and approaches tailored for ADHD and executive functioning challenges. Her background includes long practice in Pennsylvania and work with diverse needs such as caregiver stress, post-traumatic concerns, traumatic brain injury, and issues common to young adults and women.
Michelle also supports people navigating autism, intellectual disability, hearing impairment, and isolation by adapting her approach to each person’s situation. In session she uses a mix of Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Therapy. That combination lets her address both immediate problems and longer-term patterns.
She aims to help clients notice what works, try small changes, and build routines that reduce distress. Michelle describes her role as a collaborator and guide. She helps people explore values, manage symptoms, and practice new skills between sessions.
The goal is clearer thinking, steadier mood, and more confidence handling life’s demands.
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.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
Practical approaches for online counseling and skill building
Michelle draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify unhelpful thinking and try concrete behavior changes that reduce anxiety and improve mood. CBT is useful for stress, depression, mood disorders, and symptoms linked to bipolar conditions. Client-Centered Therapy is also central to her work - it focuses on listening, validating what a person brings, and shaping the pace and goals around the client's needs. That approach supports people who want a compassionate space to sort out goals and values.She often pairs these with Mindfulness techniques to build present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity. Mindfulness can help with stress, grief, and emotion regulation by teaching simple attention and breathing practices to use between sessions. Together these approaches give both immediate tools and a longer-term way to notice patterns and try different responses.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals, try brief experiments, and adjust methods based on what helps most. Clients are encouraged to say what feels useful so sessions can focus on practical changes and steady progress.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for in-depth work and face-to-face conversation. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter updates, coaching-style support, or when note-taking and reflection over the day are useful. These options make scheduling and following through easier for many people.
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