About Michele
Michele Farabaugh is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience helping people through major life transitions. She works with adults on concerns such as depression, grief, relationship and family challenges, and addiction recovery. Michele frames sessions around practical goals and steady emotional support.
Michele often helps people manage caregiver stress, midlife shifts, and aging-related worries. She pays attention to family of origin patterns and blended family dynamics that affect day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Her work includes improving communication, addressing codependency, and supporting people dealing with mood disorders. Her approach weaves compassionate listening with straightforward problem-solving. Michele draws on client-centered and psychodynamic ideas to understand feelings and history.
She then uses solution-focused and systemic perspectives to identify small, achievable steps forward. Michele brings a Christian-informed view that respects each person’s values and faith background. Sessions aim to strengthen coping skills, foster healthier relationships, and build self-love.
She encourages honest conversation about hurts and hopes. Based in Pennsylvania, Michele offers a calm, patient style that focuses on what matters most to each person. She supports practical change while acknowledging emotional complexity.
People who want a steady, respectful guide through hard transitions often find this approach helpful.
Approach and Online Therapy Options
Michele uses client-centered and solution-focused ideas to guide online work. Client-centered Therapy emphasizes listening and responding to each person’s experience so goals grow from what matters most. This helps when someone needs a safe place to be heard and to gain clarity about feelings. Solution-Focused Therapy focuses on small, practical steps and on strengths. It is useful for people who want quick strategies to manage stress, improve communication, or make changes in daily life.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Michele collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and personal style. She will check in and adjust the plan as progress or new concerns emerge, so therapy stays relevant and doable.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone session, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video calls suit longer, interactive work when seeing facial cues helps. Phone sessions fit shorter check-ins or times with lower bandwidth. Live chat or text-based messaging can be helpful for brief updates, coaching prompts, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving, or other daily demands while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English