About Michelle
Michelle Tarbell is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in Texas with over 21 years of experience. She takes a straightforward, client-centered approach and helps people who are facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD concerns, grief, or major life changes. Michelle focuses on short-term goal setting and practical steps.
Sessions are collaborative - clients help set the pace and priorities. She emphasizes clear communication and tools that can be used between sessions to manage stress and improve daily functioning.
Background and approach
Her background includes long experience supporting people affected by trauma and abuse, complicated separations, and caregiving strain. Michelle also works with issues like self-esteem, anger, compassion fatigue, and attachment concerns. She draws on decades of clinical practice to tailor simple, usable strategies for each person.
Parents who need help with parenting stress or blended family challenges will find direct guidance aimed at improving routines and communication. Michelle also assists people dealing with adoption and foster care histories, abandonment, and related emotional work. Her style is practical and steady, focusing on what helps now.
Clients meet by phone, video, live chat, or text-based messaging. Michelle uses these formats to keep therapy flexible and to fit support into busy lives. Her Texas LMFT credential is listed as LMFT, Texas license.
Client-Centered Care Delivered Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person in the room. The therapist listens with empathy, follows the client's lead, and helps people identify goals they want to reach. This approach can help with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, and ADHD-related challenges by centering the client's priorities and strengths.Michelle also uses practical, goal-oriented techniques alongside the client-centered stance. That means she and the client set concrete steps together and try small changes between sessions. The idea is to find what works in daily life and adjust as needed in a collaborative way.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michelle will discuss your needs, goals, and preferences and adapt methods to fit you. She treats the process as a collaboration where you help guide the focus and pace of therapy.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer, face-to-face conversations; phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging offer brief, flexible touchpoints between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep regular support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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