Michele Farabaugh
Experienced clinician for family and life transitions
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michele
Michele Farabaugh is a licensed social worker with 25 years of practice in Pennsylvania. She uses her long experience to help people facing relationship strain, grief, depression, addiction, and stress. Michele writes plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions.
Her credential is LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Michele aims to make sessions feel calm and straightforward. She pays attention to how family patterns and past experiences shape today’s problems.
Background and approach
Conversations often include identifying small changes that reduce overwhelm and improve communication. Michele also brings a faith-informed perspective when clients say that matters to them. Her background includes work with aging and geriatric issues, caregiver stress, blended family questions, and recovery from drug and alcohol addiction.
She also addresses codependency, commitment concerns, and midlife transitions. That experience helps when practical caregiving needs and emotional strain overlap. Michele uses a mix of approaches to match what a person needs in the moment.
Some sessions focus on understanding long-standing patterns, while others set clear short-term goals. She teaches coping skills for anxiety and mood challenges and supports people working through family problems. People who benefit most are looking for steady, experienced guidance and clear steps to try between sessions.
Michele listens for how a person’s family history and current stresses connect. She then works with them to set achievable, realistic goals for change.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centered therapy centers on the person in front of the therapist, with sessions shaped by what the client brings. It helps when someone needs empathetic listening and support to clarify values and choices. Psychodynamic therapy looks at patterns that repeat over time and traces how past relationships affect present feelings and reactions; it can be useful for resolving deep-seated family or mood issues. Solution-focused therapy aims for small, practical steps and short-term goals to reduce immediate stress and build momentum toward change.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Michele will listen to what matters most to the client, discuss options, and adapt methods as goals change. That teamwork helps make sure sessions focus on concrete progress while still addressing deeper patterns when needed.
Online work using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. These formats allow for regular check-ins, timely coaching between meetings, and flexible ways to communicate when face-to-face meetings are difficult. For people balancing caregiving, work, or health limits, the ability to meet remotely can reduce barriers to consistent care.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Exploring how earlier relationships and patterns still shape the present, often over a longer stretch of time. It relies on conversation and reflection rather than exercises.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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