- Mindfulness-based techniques
- Creative expression
- Animal-assisted activities
About Michelle
Michelle Halberg is an LCPC - Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Nevada with 15 years of experience helping adults manage stress, anxiety, grief, and life changes. She works with people who feel stuck, disconnected from themselves, or overwhelmed by relationship issues and identity shifts.
Michelle focuses on practical ways to slow down and notice what is happening inside. She uses Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction techniques to teach attention and breathing skills. Creative expression and animal-assisted activities are part of her approach when they fit a person's needs.
Sessions include learning concrete tools for regulating emotions and spotting negative thinking patterns. She helps people untangle relationship problems, deal with infidelity or jealousy, and cope with divorce or midlife transitions. Guilt and shame are listed among the issues she addresses, especially when these feelings affect self-esteem or relationships.
Michelle also supports people facing aging and geriatric concerns, co-morbidity, codependency, and dependent personality traits. Communication problems, family tensions, and questions around non-monogamous relationships are within her scope of work with adults.
Her style emphasizes clear practices over long lectures. Expect to try mindfulness exercises, creative tasks, and, when appropriate, animal-assisted experiences to practice new ways of relating to thoughts and feelings. The aim is steady, practical change rather than quick fixes.
How her therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Michelle uses Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction to teach simple attention and breathing exercises that help reduce reactivity and clarify feelings. Those practices adapt well to conversation-based sessions and short in-the-moment exercises that clients can try between meetings.She also brings creative expression into therapy, using drawing, writing, or other projects to help people notice patterns and rehearse new responses. Animal-assisted activities are incorporated when helpful to calm the nervous system and model gentle contact with difficult emotions; these elements are used thoughtfully alongside talking and practice tasks.
Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels manageable, then try approaches and adjust them together over time. Clients help decide which techniques fit their life and rhythm.
The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm available options before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and let people practice exercises in their everyday settings. Licensed professionals can use these benefits to help you integrate skills into daily life without promising a particular result.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Experience
15+ years
Listed in
Nevada
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she address related to guilt and shame?
She works with guilt and shame alongside issues like self-esteem, relationship problems, and forgiveness to help people understand how those feelings affect daily life.
How does she approach feelings of guilt or shame?
Her approach uses Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, creative expression, and animal-assisted activities to help people notice emotions and practice different responses to difficult thoughts.
How much experience does she have working with adults?
She has 15 years of clinical experience supporting adults through stress, anxiety, grief, and major life transitions.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is an LCPC - Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Nevada and provides therapy from that state.
Are sessions offered in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
Which session formats are available?
The original biography does not specify session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working with her?
Start by selecting the See online therapy options button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.