Michelle Tiger, LCSW

Michelle Tiger is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who presents a compassionate, client-centered approach to therapy. She focuses on practical steps clients can use right away. Sessions emphasize setting clear goals and looking at thoughts and behaviors that get in the way of progress.

She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and mindfulness-based methods to help people manage anxiety, depression, and stress. She also supports work around relationships, parenting, intimacy-related issues, addiction, grief, and sleep problems. Coaching around job searching and employment challenges is offered alongside psychotherapy.

Michelle’s background includes roles in aging services, adult day programming, hospice, home care, and community re-entry. That experience informs her work with people facing caregiving demands, chronic illness, and life transitions. She has also worked with individuals in correctional facilities.

In the therapy room she helps people notice unhelpful thought patterns and small behavior changes that can improve daily life. She encourages movement, exercise, and nutrition as part of whole-person wellbeing. Progress is framed as incremental and collaborative, with attention to each person’s goals.

Michelle works from Pennsylvania and communicates in English. She welcomes inquiries from clients both inside and outside the United States and uses a practical, straightforward style to address concerns such as trauma, bipolar conditions, career stress, compassion fatigue, and codependency.

How therapy approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that align with personal values. It can help when anxiety, depression, or life transitions make it hard to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative way to explore motivation and resolve ambivalence, which can be useful for job changes, addictions, or making lifestyle adjustments.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work with the client to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process that adapts as goals change and as progress is made.

The original biography does not list which online session formats are offered, so please confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins around work or caregiving schedules. It also lets people work with licensed professionals from different locations, including international clients, while keeping focus on practical tools and goal-based work.