Michele Farabaugh , LCSW

Michele Farabaugh is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with more than two decades of experience helping people navigate emotional challenges and life transitions. She focuses on depression, relationship dynamics, family conflict, and grief, bringing a compassionate, practical approach to issues such as self-love, communication difficulties, forgiveness, and personal growth.

Michele’s work emphasizes support for women, older adults, and families facing midlife changes, caregiver stress, and family of origin concerns. She has considerable experience with mood disorders, codependency, addiction recovery, and supporting survivors of domestic violence, offering steady guidance through complex circumstances.

Drawing from a Christian-informed perspective, Michele honors each person’s values and life story while helping them build stronger coping skills and healthier relationships. She aims to identify meaningful paths toward healing and transformation, approaching each session with empathy, respect, and a commitment to clients’ emotional well-being.

Therapeutic Approaches for Remote Care

Michele draws on client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening closely to each person’s experience and helping them find their own direction for change. This approach is useful for building self-esteem, improving communication, and strengthening a sense of personal agency. She also integrates psychodynamic therapy to explore how past relationships and early life patterns influence current feelings and behaviors; this can help when working through family of origin issues, attachment concerns, or recurring relationship conflicts. In addition, Michele uses solution-focused therapy to identify practical steps and small, achievable goals that move clients toward relief and better functioning, especially for stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Michele collaborates with each person to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts techniques over time so therapy remains relevant and effective.

Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone appointments, live chat, and text-based messaging, allowing clients to engage from home or while managing busy schedules. These options support consistent access to licensed professionals and make it easier to integrate therapy into everyday life.