About Michelle
Michelle Tarbell is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Texas with more than 21 years of clinical experience. She centers sessions on each person’s needs and helps people set clear goals for change. Michelle prefers straightforward, practical work that fits real life.
Michelle uses a client-centered style that lets each person shape the pace and focus of sessions. She collaborates on goals and checks in often to make sure therapy is helpful.
How Michelle works
Conversations stay focused on what feels most urgent to the client, whether that is stress, anxiety, or life transitions. Her background includes long experience supporting people after trauma and abuse, and she helps with depression, grief, anger, and compassion fatigue. Michelle also supports parents managing the strain of raising children, and she offers care around attachment, abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns.
She works with issues such as ADHD, communication problems, codependency, and relationship separation. Michelle draws on years in independent practice to offer flexible ways to work. She aims to make sessions usable for daily life, with practical steps clients can try between meetings.
The focus is on steady progress rather than quick fixes. People who want a calm, goal-focused therapist often find her approach useful. Michelle uses plain language in sessions and encourages active participation from the person who is coming for help.
Her style fits those looking for clear direction and steady support.
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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.
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Client-centered care online and how it helps
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely to each person and following their lead in sessions. The therapist creates space for people to talk about what matters most, and then helps them identify goals and next steps. This approach is useful for concerns like anxiety, depression, self-esteem, grief, and stress related to life changes.Michelle emphasizes collaboration when choosing an approach. She works with the client to decide what methods and goals fit best for their needs and preferences. Together they review progress and adjust the plan as goals change, so therapy stays relevant and practical.
Online sessions can be done by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls let people have more face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers quick check-ins, and text messaging suits short updates or ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep steady contact between meetings.
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