About Michelle
Michelle Harmolin is a licensed professional counselor in New Jersey who helps people facing stress, anxiety, anger, and low self-esteem. She works with clients dealing with depression, addiction concerns, grief, and the strain of life changes. Michelle also supports those navigating LGBT issues, gender dysphoria, and relationship or family problems.
Her style is approachable and down-to-earth. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps rather than jargon. She listens first, then helps people try small changes that can reduce distress and build confidence.
Background and approach
Michelle uses methods that fit each person’s needs. She draws from client-centered work to follow what matters most to the individual. Cognitive behavioral tools are used to spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
She also integrates DBT skills and mindfulness to manage strong emotions and urges. She brings eight years of clinical experience to everyday concerns like communication problems, codependency, and addiction to drugs or alcohol. Michelle pays attention to attachment and abandonment issues that often underlie isolation, jealousy, and control struggles.
People who reach out can expect straightforward conversations about coping strategies, motivation, and next steps. Michelle aims to help clients build resilience, clearer boundaries, and better emotional regulation. Her background includes work with compassion fatigue and parenting stress, always with an affirming outlook for LGBT identities.
Integrating practical therapies for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on following the client's lead and building a trusting connection. It helps when someone needs space to name what matters and wants a therapist who listens and reflects without pushing an agenda.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps identify patterns of thought that increase anxiety or low mood and teaches specific strategies to test and change those thoughts. This approach is useful for stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms where concrete thinking shifts can reduce distress.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, contributes skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. Those tools are often used when strong emotions, impulsivity, or relationship conflicts get in the way of daily life.
Michelle will work collaboratively to pick the approaches that fit a person's goals and preferences. Finding the right mix is part of the therapy process, and she adjusts methods over time based on what helps the client move forward.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more accessible. Video calls are helpful for face-to-face conversation and practicing skills in real time. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or a good option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates, coaching between sessions, or work for people who prefer writing. These options aim to make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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