Michelle Adler
Supportive counselor focused on practical change
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michelle
Michelle Adler is a licensed professional counselor with 18 years of experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, relationship struggles, and LGBT-related concerns. She also supports those facing issues like ADHD, eating and sleeping problems, career stress, and challenges with self-esteem.
Seeking help can feel daunting, and she aims to make that first step feel manageable and honest. Michelle centers sessions on the client’s story and strengths.
Background and approach
She treats each person as the expert on their life and works alongside them to set practical goals. In conversations she focuses on clear steps, problem solving, and building skills that can be used between sessions. Her past work covers a wide range of difficulties including intimacy-related issues, bipolar disorder, anger, compassion fatigue, and coping with life changes.
Additional concerns she addresses include attachment and abandonment worries, blended family tensions, codependency, and family of origin problems. She also has experience with first responder issues, domestic violence, and gender dysphoria. Michelle takes a straightforward, collaborative approach.
She listens first, then offers tools tailored to what the person says they want to change. Progress is tracked in ways that make sense to each client, often emphasizing small, doable steps. She provides services as a Pennsylvania LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - and offers sessions in English.
The practice uses multiple session formats to fit different schedules and preferences.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Michelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach she applies emphasizes building coping skills and stress management strategies to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. This approach teaches concrete tools clients can practice between sessions and is useful for worries, sleep problems, and managing intense emotions.Another frequently used method concentrates on processing trauma and improving relationship patterns by identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It helps people examine how past experiences shape current reactions and supports steps toward healthier interactions and emotional regulation.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist listens to a person’s goals, symptoms, and preferences and then recommends techniques to try. Plans are adjusted based on what helps, so clients and the therapist work together to find the best fit.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, phone sessions add flexibility, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit those who prefer shorter, more frequent check-ins. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily routines while keeping focus on steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point