Michele Klahr
Practical counseling for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michele
Michele Klahr is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 25 years of experience in mental health care. She practices in Oklahoma and has spent nearly two decades working in a large medical hospital setting. There she assesses patients' emotional needs, responds to crises, and supports suicide prevention efforts.
She helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief and depression. Michele also supports those facing addiction and trouble coping with life changes. She has an interest in personality disorder work and in addressing challenges such as anger, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Her approach is straightforward and practical. Sessions focus on what is most pressing for the person in front of her. Michele listens first, then works with clients to set clear, achievable goals and steps to reach them.
Michele uses techniques from client-centered counseling, cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused work. These methods guide conversations and shape homework or small experiments between sessions. The intent is to build skills that people can use day to day.
People who come to Michele often want realistic tools and a collaborating guide. She aims to make the process manageable and to help people move toward clearer choices and more steady coping. For those ready to begin, she supports each step along the way.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so the person feels heard and understood; it helps people who need a supportive space to sort through their feelings and choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses small experiments to change patterns that worsen anxiety or depression. Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels unsure about change by exploring their own reasons and building motivation step by step.Choosing a method is a team effort. Michele will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then suggest approaches that fit. She adjusts the plan as progress and needs become clearer so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions can make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, while phone, live chat, or text messaging offer more flexible, shorter-touch options. Those formats support ongoing work between visits and let people pick what feels most comfortable for them.
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.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Michele
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point