Michelle Kisler
Practical, compassionate counseling for life transitions
LPC Pennsylvania
- Experience
- 17 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and abuse, Grief
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Michelle
Michelle Kisler is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 17 years of experience providing thoughtful, person-focused care in Pennsylvania. She welcomes people seeking help with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, parenting and family issues, and other life transitions.
Background and approach
Her work emphasizes respect for each individual's background and lived story while attending to practical needs like executive functioning and day-to-day coping. Grounded in a holistic outlook, Michelle blends evidence-informed techniques with a warm, client-centered stance.
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside mindfulness and solution-focused methods to help clients identify patterns, develop new skills, and pursue meaningful change. Motivational interviewing and trauma-focused strategies complement her approach when exploring motivation, recovery, and resilience.
Michelle pays close attention to cultural factors and neurodiversity, and she offers support for caregiver stress, isolation, forgiveness work, and issues related to hearing impairment or intellectual disability. Her style is collaborative and paced to each person's goals, emphasizing practical strategies and compassionate listening to guide clients toward clearer direction and improved day-to-day functioning.
Approach and access: therapeutic options online
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a practical, skills-based approach that helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replace them with more adaptive responses; it is often useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life changes. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes an empathic, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist offers understanding and support while clients explore their own values and goals. Mindfulness Therapy helps people build awareness of present-moment experience and develop techniques to reduce reactivity to stressors, which can support work on mood, anxiety, and trauma-related symptoms.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that align with their needs, strengths, and preferences, adjusting strategies over time as goals evolve and progress becomes clearer.
Online therapy with Michelle includes options for video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which can make scheduling more flexible and allow support from home or work. These formats can help people maintain continuity of care while balancing work, family, and other responsibilities, and they allow licensed professionals to deliver therapeutic tools and guidance in ways that fit a client's daily life.
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Experience
17+ years
Licensed
Pennsylvania
Languages
English