About Michelle
Michelle Tiger is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who draws on several practical therapy approaches to help people cope with life stressors. She focuses on day-to-day problems like insomnia, work and career challenges, anxiety, depression, and parenting strain. Michelle is an LGBTQ+ ally and aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space for people to talk about goals and next steps.
Her work blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and client-centered listening.
How Michelle works
She helps people notice unhelpful thinking and behaviors, and then try small, doable changes. Sessions often involve setting clear goals, testing new habits, and checking what’s working. Michelle also brings experience from roles in aging services, hospice, home care, and community re-entry.
That background informs how she supports people facing caregiving, chronic illness, or major life transitions. She offers practical coaching around job searching and employment concerns when that is helpful. When sleep is a problem she uses methods from CBT for insomnia alongside relaxation and routine adjustments.
For those facing trauma, grief, or relationship stress she focuses on skills that reduce distress and improve daily functioning. She encourages movement, nutrition, and small routines that support overall well-being. Overall, Michelle emphasizes steady, incremental change.
She works collaboratively to set realistic steps and track progress. People who want a supportive, goal-oriented approach often find her style helpful.
Michelle lists 7 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.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
Practical approaches for online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting controlled by them, while encouraging action that matches personal values. This is useful for life transitions, stress, and problems with motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and testing thinking patterns and behaviors that keep problems going, which can help with anxiety, depression, and insomnia. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and collaboration, giving people a steady, nonjudgmental space to set goals and try changes.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan over time based on real progress and feedback.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video lets people work face-to-face, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, and short chats or messaging can help with quick check-ins or coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or health challenges and support steady progress from wherever someone is located.
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