Michelle Zehner, LCSW, MD, LCSW-C

Michelle Zehner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker based in Pennsylvania with four years of professional experience supporting adults through a range of emotional and behavioral challenges. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, self-esteem concerns, and motivation, and she also works with relationship and family issues, grief, addictions, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue. Michelle integrates evidence-informed methods including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for trauma, client-centered therapy to honor each person’s experience, and motivational interviewing to support change and goal attainment.

Her practice also addresses related areas such as abandonment, body image, communication difficulties, domestic violence, hoarding, infidelity, isolation and loneliness, financial stress, obsessive-compulsive patterns, post-traumatic stress, sexual assault and abuse, social anxiety, and challenges common to young adults. Michelle emphasizes creating an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be expressed and explored at a pace that feels manageable.

She holds the credentials LCSW and LCSW-C, which identify her as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and also lists MD among her credentials. Michelle aims to meet people where they are and partner with them to build coping skills, increase resilience, and move toward meaningful change. Taking the first step to seek support can require courage, and she recognizes and honors that effort.