Michele Farabaugh , LCSW

Michele Farabaugh is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience helping people through major life changes. She practices in Pennsylvania and focuses on common problems like depression, anxiety, stress, grief, and relationship concerns. Michele offers down-to-earth guidance and practical steps to help people move forward.

Michele often supports people dealing with caregiving strain, midlife shifts, blended family challenges, and aging concerns. She also works with those facing addiction, mood struggles, and issues around codependency and self-esteem. Her background includes long experience with family of origin patterns and communication problems.

Her style is compassionate and direct. Sessions tend to focus on clarifying what matters, identifying small changes that make daily life easier, and building coping skills that stick. Michele uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs rather than one fixed method.

Michele brings a Christian-informed perspective when clients want that included in their work. She respects each person’s values and helps people align their choices with those values. Conversations may include goal-setting, emotional processing, and practical problem-solving.

People who choose Michele usually want someone who listens without judgement and lays out clear next steps. She balances emotional support with tools for change. Her aim is to help clients find steadier ground and clearer direction in their lives.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following each person's lead. It helps people feel heard, clarify what they want, and build solutions from their own goals. Psychodynamic therapy looks at patterns that repeat across relationships and time. It can help people understand where longstanding feelings and reactions come from and how to change them.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michele will collaborate with each person to choose or blend methods based on needs, goals, and comfort. Together they check what helps and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are options for shorter check-ins, brief coaching, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep continuity when life gets hectic.