About Rae
Rae Ann Michalko is a licensed social worker with three decades of experience supporting people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem struggles. She works with individuals who are wrestling with life changes, relationship concerns, addiction issues, grief, sleep disruption, and ADHD. Rae Ann aims to make the first step feel manageable and affirms the courage it takes to begin therapy.
Rae Ann uses a practical, down-to-earth style in sessions. She listens for what matters most to each person and adapts conversations and plans to fit their situation.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals, small steps, and skills people can use between meetings to cope and move forward. Her background includes long clinical practice across several states, and she holds licenses as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Independent Social Worker. That experience informs a steady approach to mood disorders, bipolar concerns, and compassion fatigue.
She also helps people with issues that come with aging, caregiving stress, and postpartum mood changes. Rae Ann addresses specific life challenges such as fertility-related stress, communication problems, commitment doubts, and feelings of isolation or jealousy. She works with people navigating midlife questions, searching for life purpose, or trying to rebuild self-love after loss.
Therapy with Rae Ann blends attentive listening, practical strategies, and collaborative planning. She invites clients to shape the pace and focus of work together, adjusting tools and techniques to match changing needs and goals.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Rae Ann draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on building practical skills and changing unhelpful patterns. One common approach emphasizes identifying thoughts and behaviors that increase anxiety or low mood, then testing small changes to see what helps; this method is useful for stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms. Another approach centers on improving daily routines, sleep, and coping tools so people can better handle life transitions, caregiver strain, and attention difficulties such as ADHD.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. Rae Ann collaborates with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals and preferences, and she adjusts plans as progress is made. That collaborative stance helps tailor work for mood disorders, relationship strain, and midlife or purpose-related concerns.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared screen materials for worksheets. Phone sessions can be a lighter option when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between meetings or use written reflection when that feels easier. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while working with licensed professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Michigan
- Languages
- English
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