Works with
- Anger
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
How Michelle works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Years in practice
- 4
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Michelle
Michelle Tiger is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who brings a practical, client-centered approach to therapy. She focuses on everyday struggles like sleep problems, stress, anxiety, depression, and anger. She also supports people facing life changes, job searches, caregiving challenges, and health or disability concerns.
Michelle uses straightforward conversation to identify what is getting in the way of change. Sessions often look at unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. She encourages small, doable steps that build toward better routines and coping skills.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in aging services, adult day programs, hospice, home care, and community re-entry. That experience shapes a down-to-earth style and an emphasis on practical tools. She has also worked with people in correctional settings and offers coaching around employment challenges.
Therapy draws on a mix of evidence-based methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Motivational Interviewing, Mindfulness-based practices, and Client-Centered Therapy. These approaches are used to address issues like insomnia, relationship concerns, addiction, grief, and self-esteem. Michelle describes therapy as a collaborative process.
She asks about each person’s goals and helps tailor strategies to fit daily life. Her work highlights gradual progress, movement, exercise, and nutrition as supportive parts of overall wellbeing. She practices in Pennsylvania and offers sessions in English, including online formats for people outside the region.
Michelle supports LGBTQ+ individuals and aims to create a nonjudgmental space for change.
What Michelle works with
Everything Michelle lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Michelle's practice.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Michelle lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Michelle Uses Evidence-Based Methods Online
Michelle commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and reconnect with personal values. ACT supports moving toward a meaningful life even when difficult feelings remain present.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and change patterns of thinking and behavior that worsen mood, anxiety, or sleep. CBT is practical and works well for issues like insomnia, stress, and anger. Client-Centered Therapy shapes her overall approach by keeping the person’s goals central and adapting pacing to individual needs.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle talks with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they pick strategies and adjust them over time so methods feel useful and realistic in daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video is good for longer therapy sessions and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text messaging make quick check-ins and short exchanges simple between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other responsibilities while using the approaches above.
Questions people ask about Michelle
What concerns does Michelle address in therapy?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, sleep problems, relationship and intimacy issues, addiction, grief, career questions, and parenting challenges among other concerns.
What is Michelle's therapeutic style like?
Her style is compassionate and client-centered. She focuses on practical steps, talking through patterns, and building small changes that fit daily life.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Michelle has four years working as a therapist and additional experience in aging services, hospice, home care, and community re-entry roles.
What credentials and location should I know about?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, PA LCSW, and practices in Pennsylvania.
Are sessions available in languages other than English or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are offered?
Michelle meets via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different preferences and schedules.
How does pricing work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling according to therapist availability.