About Michelle
Michelle Kisler is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 17 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, mood changes, or the challenges of living with ADHD. Her aim is to offer straightforward support so people can feel more steady in daily life.
She keeps sessions practical and focused on the person in front of her. Michelle uses conversation, goal-setting, and skills practice to address things like executive functioning, low self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
She listens for each person's priorities and works at a pace that feels manageable. Her approach draws from client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different behaviors. Mindfulness practices are used when they fit, often to reduce reactivity and improve focus.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused strategies help when clients want clear, achievable steps forward. Michelle has spent many years supporting people after trauma, with mood disorders, and those caring for others. She also brings experience working with autism and neurodivergent perspectives, hearing-impaired clients, and people living with intellectual disability or traumatic brain injury.
That background informs how she adapts pace and communication. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can choose what works best. Michelle works to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where clients can try small changes and build on what works for them.
Approaches for online growth and symptom management
Michelle commonly draws on client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and mindfulness practices in online sessions. Client-centered therapy means sessions focus on the person's goals and lived experience, with the therapist following the client's lead and offering reflective support. CBT involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or improve mood. Mindfulness therapy uses simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and support better focus, which can help with ADHD-related challenges.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Michelle will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. That may mean trying one approach for a few sessions and adjusting over time as progress and preferences become clearer.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter check-ins, quick coaching, or support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to choose the way of working that feels most practical.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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