Michelle Tufaro
Compassionate, practical therapy for life's challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michelle
Michelle Tufaro is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical therapy for everyday struggles. She speaks plainly and helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, anger, and motivation challenges. Michelle emphasizes a welcoming space where clients can talk without judgment.
She reminds people that seeking help takes courage and offers steady support through that first step. With 12 years of experience, Michelle brings steady clinical practice to each session.
Background and approach
She has worked with concerns ranging from relationship and family issues to addiction and trauma. Her background also includes helping people with sleep and eating problems, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and life transitions such as divorce or fertility difficulties. Michelle uses evidence-based techniques to address symptoms and day-to-day functioning.
She aims to teach skills clients can use between sessions, like stress management and emotional regulation. Sessions often focus on realistic steps and problem-solving rather than abstract explanations. Therapy can explore family of origin patterns, codependency, or commitment issues when relevant.
Michelle has experience with adoption and foster care topics, aging and geriatric concerns, and challenges tied to cancer and chronic pain. She also supports those coping with disasters and complex medical issues. She holds the LCSW credential - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - in New Jersey.
Michelle offers services in English and accepts international clients for online work. Getting started typically involves a brief intake and setting clear, manageable goals together.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Michelle draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and coping skills. One common approach she uses emphasizes skills training for stress and emotional regulation - this teaches breathing, coping strategies, and simple steps to manage anxiety and overwhelm. Another approach centers on behavioral strategies to address habits around sleep, eating, and substance use - it breaks problems into small, manageable actions and tracks progress over time.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Michelle will work with each person to identify goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust them as needed to fit real life and changing needs.
Online therapy here includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These formats make it easier to fit appointments into busy schedules, to check in quickly between sessions, and to continue care when travel or distance would otherwise get in the way. Licensed professionals can use these options to keep work focused on practical steps and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Michelle
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point