Michelle Bartnik, LPC

Michelle Bartnik is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Michigan with nine years of counseling experience. She helps people handle stress, anxiety, family conflict, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, and mood concerns such as depression and bipolar disorder. She also works with grief, career issues, and ADHD related worries.

Michelle focuses on practical, guided work in sessions. She listens to what someone has already tried and points out unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns that keep problems stuck. Sessions often include small experiments and steps to test new ways of coping between meetings.

Her approach draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to look at thoughts, feelings, and actions that influence day-to-day life. She also uses attachment-based ideas to understand relationship patterns and client-centered methods to keep conversations focused on the person’s priorities. Motivational interviewing and narrative therapy tools are used when people want to reframe their story or increase motivation for change.

Clients can expect a clear, step-by-step focus on specific goals. Michelle works with concrete problems like communication breakdowns, caregiver stress, blended family issues, and challenges around adoption and attachment. She pays attention to how past experiences shape current patterns and helps clients try different responses.

Her practice is oriented toward people who want structured, practical work. She supports exploration of options and decision making, and guides planning for real-life challenges such as parenting strain, work stress, or transitions.

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