Michelle Halberg

Michelle Halberg is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 15 years of experience helping adults through difficult transitions. She works with people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or low self-esteem. Michelle supports those coping with relationship strain, life changes, and challenges that come with aging.

Her approach mixes practical techniques and hands-on practices. She uses Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction strategies to help clients slow down and notice what they’re feeling. Creative expression is offered as a way to access emotion when words do not feel enough. Animal-assisted therapy is also part of her toolbox for helping clients reconnect and regulate emotions.

Sessions focus on understanding thoughts and patterns that keep people stuck. Michelle helps clients build concrete skills for managing anxiety and improving communication. The work often includes grounding practices, emotion regulation tools, and exercises to shift unhelpful thinking.

Michelle pays attention to how aging, grief, and identity shifts affect daily life. She also addresses issues such as codependency, infidelity, jealousy, and the complexities of non-monogamous relationships. Divorce and separation are among the concerns she helps people navigate.

She frames therapy as collaborative work. Clients set goals and Michelle adapts techniques to match their needs and pace. The result is practical strategies aimed at restoring balance and helping people move forward with clearer direction.

How therapeutic techniques translate to online work

Michelle uses Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction to help people notice their breath and physical sensations, which can reduce immediate stress and make difficult emotions easier to sit with. This approach is useful for anxiety, overwhelm, and adjusting to big life changes.

She also integrates creative expression to access feelings that are hard to name, using drawing, writing, or movement as a way to process grief, identity shifts, and relationship upset. Animal-assisted techniques are used to promote calm and connection during sessions and can support regulation and emotional grounding.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Michelle works with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and comfort level. Together they try techniques, track what helps, and adapt the plan so therapy remains practical and relevant.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also lets people try mindfulness and creative exercises from their own routine and apply new skills between meetings.