About Michelle
Michelle Halberg is a licensed counselor who brings 15 years of experience to work with adults facing major life shifts. She focuses on stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, and relationship challenges. Michelle helps people who feel overwhelmed, disconnected, or unsure how to move forward.
She combines practical tools with hands-on methods like mindfulness-based stress reduction, creative expression, and animal-assisted therapy. Sessions aim to slow racing thoughts and offer ways to manage strong emotions.
Background and approach
Michelle prioritizes helping people notice patterns that keep them stuck and then try different coping strategies. Michelle often supports people navigating midlife changes, divorce or separation, or the emotional effects of aging. She also addresses issues such as codependency, communication problems, guilt and shame, jealousy, and the fallout from infidelity.
Her background includes helping clients deal with emptiness, dependent personality patterns, and complicated family dynamics. Work in sessions is collaborative and practical. Clients might practice mindfulness exercises, use art or movement to express feelings, and explore interactions with supportive animals when appropriate.
The goal is to leave each session with something concrete to try between meetings. Michelle holds the Nevada Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential, LCPC, and offers care in English. She brings steady experience and a calm presence to help people take the next step toward a more balanced life.
How her approaches translate to online work
Michelle uses mindfulness-based stress reduction to help clients notice and manage stress in the moment; this usually involves guided breathing, grounding exercises, and short attention practices that reduce rumination and increase calm. These skills are useful for anxiety, stress, and when life feels overwhelming.She also incorporates creative expression work, inviting clients to use drawing, writing, or movement to access feelings that are hard to name. Creative tasks can reveal patterns and provide tangible ways to practice new responses between sessions. Additionally, Michelle integrates animal-assisted elements when appropriate to help clients feel regulated and connected during emotional work.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level, and will adjust methods as progress is made.
Session logistics are not listed here, so please confirm current online options before booking. Many people find online sessions helpful because they can fit more easily into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow consistent check-ins even during life changes. The therapist and client will discuss practical scheduling and how to make sessions a useful part of everyday life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Nevada
- Languages
- English