Michelle Tarbell, LMFT

Michelle Tarbell is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Texas with more than 21 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people navigate major life shifts, reduce stress and anxiety, and manage depression. Michelle takes a straightforward, client-centered approach where the person in therapy helps guide the work and set goals.

In sessions she prioritizes clear goals and practical steps. Conversations are aimed at understanding what matters most to the client and finding ways to move forward. She draws on long experience with parenting concerns, grief, anger, trauma and abuse, and ADHD-related struggles.

Michelle also addresses issues such as attachment wounds, abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, codependency, and communication problems. She helps people facing divorce or separation, domestic violence aftermath, dissociation, and feelings of emptiness.

Her background includes running a private practice for over two decades and working with adults and teens through significant challenges. She uses Client-Centered Therapy to keep the client's perspective at the center and to support goal-setting. People who prefer a collaborative, goal-oriented style often find this approach helpful.

If you are thinking about midlife transitions, parenting strain, or managing long-term stress, Michelle aims to help you clarify priorities and take manageable steps forward. Prospective clients should confirm current session options before booking.

Client-Centered Care Adapted for Online Work

Client-Centered Therapy puts the client's perspective first. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and follows the client's lead on what to address. This approach helps when people are sorting through stress, depression, grief, trauma, or midlife changes because it keeps the work focused on the client's priorities.

Michelle also applies a solution-focused orientation in sessions. That means after clarifying a concern, she works with the client to set short-term goals and identify practical next steps. This can be helpful when someone needs clearer direction or quicker strategies to manage daily stressors and parenting demands.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will work with each person to choose techniques that match their goals and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made. The client helps guide the pace and focus of therapy throughout.

Session formats are not listed in the biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people meet from a convenient location and use modes of communication that fit their daily routines.