Michelle Tiger
Supportive LCSW focused on practical change
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michelle
Michelle Tiger is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who offers practical, down-to-earth therapy for adults. She focuses on issues like parenting, depression, anxiety, stress, insomnia, career concerns, and coping with life changes. Michelle draws on a blend of proven methods to help people make small, manageable changes that add up over time.
She describes her style as compassionate and client-centered. Sessions begin with clear goals and a discussion of what the client wants to achieve.
Background and approach
Michelle pays attention to everyday routines like sleep, movement, and nutrition because small habits often affect mood and energy. Her background includes work in hospice, home care, adult day services, community re-entry, and correctional settings. That variety shaped a practical, problem-focused approach to treatment and coaching.
She also offers help around job searching and employment challenges. In the therapy room Michelle looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep people stuck. She uses evidence-based tools such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to shift patterns and promote coping skills.
Motivational Interviewing helps when someone wants to make a change but feels stuck. Michelle identifies as an LGBTQ+ ally and aims to create a nonjudgmental space for clients. She encourages small steps and steady progress, acknowledging that change takes time and patience.
How Michelle’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take actions that match those values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by teaching acceptance of difficult feelings and committed action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and managing daily routines.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Michelle will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they try methods, review results, and adjust the plan so it feels practical and achievable.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, get support between appointments, and continue working on goals from home. For many people, remote sessions reduce travel time and allow therapy to be integrated into everyday life.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point