Michelle Adler helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, and challenges tied to identity and relationships.
01About Michelle
Michelle Adler helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, and challenges tied to identity and relationships. She is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania with 18 years of experience. Michelle encourages small steps and practical changes to make daily life feel more manageable.
Michelle treats concerns such as LGBT-related issues, relationship strain, intimacy difficulties, and the aftereffects of abuse. She also supports people dealing with ADHD, eating and sleeping problems, mood conditions like bipolar, and career stress.
Background and approach
Parenting strain, compassion fatigue, and anger are other common topics she addresses. Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She listens first, then works with each person to set clear, realistic goals.
Sessions often focus on skills people can use between meetings to reduce symptoms and improve functioning. Michelle also pays attention to attachment and abandonment concerns, family of origin issues, codependency, and control struggles. First responder issues, blended family dynamics, and gender dysphoria are included among areas she has worked with.
She frames challenges as solvable with steady effort and practical tools. Clients can expect a calm, respectful approach where their experiences are taken seriously. The work is paced to fit each person’s needs, with room for coaching-style support when helpful.
Michelle aims to help people move from feeling stuck to feeling more capable and hopeful.
02Credentials
- LPC (Pennsylvania)
- License PC005905 · expires February 2027
- NPI
- 1154660132 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Michelle lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- ADHD
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
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04Online support
Evidence-based techniques for online care
Michelle commonly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on concrete skills and problem solving. One approach emphasizes learning coping skills for anxiety and stress, teaching breathing, pacing, and behavioral strategies to reduce daily distress and improve sleep and focus. Another approach centers on working with trauma and relationship wounds by helping people notice patterns, build safer boundaries, and practice new ways of relating that reduce shame and increase trust.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist listens to each person’s story, discusses options, and tests methods that match the person's goals and comfort. Together they adjust strategies over time to find what helps best.
Online therapy offers a range of formats to fit life. Video calls let people meet face-to-face when a conversation benefits from visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick emotional support, homework check-ins, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep regular contact and practice skills between sessions.
05Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Michelle address?
She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, LGBT-related issues, relationship and intimacy difficulties, ADHD, eating and sleeping problems, bipolar disorder, career strain, parenting stress, and compassion fatigue among other concerns.
What is her approach in sessions?
Her style is collaborative and practical. She listens, helps set clear goals, and teaches skills people can use between sessions to manage symptoms and improve daily functioning.
How much experience does she have?
Michelle has 18 years of professional work experience supporting people with a wide range of mental health and life concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC - licensed in Pennsylvania.
Which languages are supported and can international clients join?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Michelle offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are sessions paid for and what do they cost?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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