Michelle Tarbell, LMFT

Michelle Tarbell is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) licensed in Texas with 21 years of clinical experience. She focuses on problems like trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, parenting strain, low self-esteem, grief, and stress. Michelle also works with issues tied to codependency, ADHD, attachment, and relationship boundaries.

She runs a private practice and has spent two decades helping people manage big life changes and hard moments. Sessions are collaborative; the client helps set goals and direct the work. She often combines a client-centered stance with practical, solution-focused steps so people leave with clearer next actions.

In sessions she listens for patterns that keep someone stuck, such as putting others first or feeling drained by caregiving roles. She will talk through how those patterns started and what keeps them going. Then she helps people try different ways of responding, practicing new boundaries or communication skills in small, realistic steps.

Michelle has experience with parenting concerns, blended family stress, and adoption or foster-care related issues. She also supports people coping with abandonment, separation, domestic violence aftermath, and the emotional fallout of major life transitions. Her work includes attention to anger, emptiness, and compassion fatigue.

People meet her when they want concrete help setting limits, sorting priorities, and rebuilding a sense of self after periods of caretaking or crisis. She works with adults and teens, with sessions conducted in English in Texas.

How Michelle adapts client-centered work for online sessions