Michele Farabaugh , LCSW

Michele Farabaugh, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience supporting people through complex emotional and relational challenges. She blends practical guidance with empathic listening to help individuals, couples, and families navigate depression, grief, and difficult relationship dynamics while encouraging personal growth and resilience.

Michele focuses on issues such as self-love, communication difficulties, forgiveness, and coping with life transitions. Her work often supports women, older adults, and families facing midlife changes, caregiver stress, and family of origin concerns. She also has extensive experience addressing mood disorders, codependency, addiction recovery, and healing from domestic violence, approaching each situation with respect for the client’s history and values.

Rooted in a Christian-informed perspective, Michele aims to create a supportive space that honors each person’s journey. Her goal is to help clients build stronger coping skills, improve relationships, and identify meaningful paths toward healing and transformation. She approaches sessions with empathy, professionalism, and a commitment to each person’s emotional well-being.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Client-centered therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship in which the therapist listens carefully and follows the client's lead to build insight and self-directed change. It is well suited to people seeking support with self-esteem, coping with life changes, and improving communication.

Psychodynamic therapy explores patterns that originate in past relationships and early experiences to uncover how they affect current emotions and behavior. This approach can help people working through grief, relationship dynamics, and family of origin issues by increasing self-understanding.

Solution-focused therapy concentrates on practical goals and building on a client’s existing strengths to create change in shorter timeframes. It often appeals to those seeking clear strategies for stress, anxiety, or decision-making around career and relationships.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Michele works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods align with their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress unfolds.

Online therapy offers flexibility by allowing sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work during life transitions. For many people, remote sessions increase accessibility to licensed professionals and make consistent support more manageable.