Michelle Harmolin, LPC

Michelle Harmolin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey with eight years of experience. She helps people deal with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, addictions, parenting concerns, and codependency. She also supports people facing grief, identity questions, and compassion fatigue.

Michelle uses straightforward conversations to help clients notice patterns that keep them stuck. She listens for how avoidance, fear of abandonment, or people-pleasing show up in daily life. Sessions include practical skills for managing strong emotions and clearer ways to ask for what someone needs.

Her work draws on client-centered ideas that prioritize the person’s goals. She combines that with cognitive behavioral tools to challenge unhelpful thinking and dialectical behavior therapy skills to handle intense feelings. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing methods are used when they fit the client's goals and readiness.

Michelle brings an affirming approach to questions of gender and sexual identity. She aims to help LGBTQ+ people and young adults sort through relationship patterns, communication problems, and identity stressors. Her perspective pays attention to cultural background and how it shapes behavior and expectations.

Sessions focus on concrete steps and small changes that are sustainable. Michelle supports people who want to set boundaries, reduce people-pleasing, cope with a partner's substance use, or recover a sense of self after loss or chronic relationship strain.

How therapeutic approaches are used in online sessions