About Michelle
Michelle Tiger is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She uses straightforward, practical methods so people can make small changes that add up. Michelle supports clients dealing with parenting challenges, grief, sleep trouble, addiction concerns, and major life transitions.
Before focusing on therapy she worked in aging services, hospice, home care, and community re-entry. That background informs how she talks about caregiving, chronic illness, and the strain that long-term stress can cause.
Background and approach
She also offers coaching around job searching and employment concerns alongside therapy work. Michelle describes her style as compassionate and client-centered. She helps people notice thought patterns and habits that keep them stuck, and then tries out concrete steps to shift those patterns.
She is an LGBTQ+ ally and makes space for questions about identity and intimacy. Therapeutic tools she uses include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and mindfulness-based approaches. These methods are used to address problems such as insomnia, communication issues, codependency, and coping after loss or trauma.
Michelle brings four years of direct therapy experience and a broader history in related care settings. She works with adults on concerns like career transitions, compassion fatigue, bipolar mood challenges, and recovery from domestic violence. The focus is on practical changes and steady progress over time.
How Michelle’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It is useful for stress, life transitions, and ongoing mood concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and behavior that cause distress and then practicing new ways of responding; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and insomnia. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist listens closely and follows the client's goals rather than directing the process.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Michelle will work with each person to figure out which methods fit their needs and preferences. Goals, comfort with techniques, and everyday routines help guide which tools are used and when to try something different.
Online sessions let people access therapy from different locations and schedules. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, skill practice, or when someone prefers typed communication. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does Michelle address?
What is her therapy style like?
What relevant background does she bring?
What are her credentials and where is she located?
Can sessions be conducted in other languages or internationally?
Which session formats does she offer?
How is pricing handled?
How do I begin working with her?
Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English