About Michelle
Michelle Wygant is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania with 15 years of experience. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, ADHD, relationship and intimacy concerns, and the strain of major life changes. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at practical steps that fit daily life.
Michelle listens first and then helps clients set clear, manageable goals. She uses talk therapy and goal-focused techniques to uncover unhelpful patterns and build better habits.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what feels most urgent and useful for each person. She draws from client-centered therapy to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to identify thoughts that fuel distress and to try small behavioral experiments.
Motivational Interviewing helps people clarify what they want to change and stay engaged with that goal. Michelle has worked with many kinds of concerns over her career, including trauma and abuse, parenting-related stress, bipolar mood concerns, eating and sleeping problems, chronic illness, and caregiver fatigue. She also supports people facing abandonment, attachment, and blended-family issues.
Her approach adapts to the problem at hand rather than following a single script. Practical skills, homework between sessions when helpful, and steady feedback are common parts of her work. New clients complete a short questionnaire, then schedule sessions that match their needs.
Therapy is a collaborative process aimed at steady, realistic change.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Michelle commonly uses client-centered therapy to create a respectful space where people feel heard and understood. This approach focuses on the person’s experience and what they want to change, making sessions collaborative and individualized.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, to help identify unhelpful thoughts and try concrete behavior changes. CBT works well for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related routines, sleep and eating concerns because it breaks problems into manageable steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Michelle will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different techniques. Then she tailors the mix of methods to suit the individual and adjusts as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are useful for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a shorter break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text can work well for quick check-ins, tracking homework, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to keep regular sessions and to try techniques between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- 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
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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