Our 7-year-old daughter started seeing Michele to help her work through her feelings as she adjusted to our divorce. The sessions were very helpful, especially with a child who is not naturally inclined to want to talk about what bothers her. She both benefited from and enjoyed her time with Michele, and is now happy and well-adjusted, with a strong relationship with both of her parents. Our time with Michele was well-spent, and we look back on it as one of the best decisions we made during that very difficult family transition.

Michele Cole was recommended by a close friend when our teen daughter was grappling with peers at school making bad choices, her own self-doubts, and feeling unhappy. Michele worked as our full partner and our daughter’s trusted advisor to work through her feelings and behaviors and develop self-guided resiliency and inner strength without medication. We are immensely grateful for Michele’s impact on our daughter. Michele assisted our daughter to build on her strengths, to develop habits and self-discipline for taking good care of herself and to cultivate a mindset that naturally flows to healthy choices. Our daughter led her own college application process, has been accepted to 4 universities and counting before February of her senior year, and most importantly she is happy, grounded, and balanced in her view of herself. In our daughter’s own words, “Michele Cole's warm yet purposefully demanding guidance helped me see the world in a way I did not know was possible. When my last session arose it was bitter sweet: Michele had become a part of our family.”

My son is a very different person today from the child we first brought to see Michele in her practice. We could not be more grateful for the way she helped him to understand and cope with his Tourette Syndrome and all the behaviors that come with that diagnosis. She listened to him talk about what he was going through, and what he was feeling, and gave him the coping tools he needed to succeed. He is a young teenager now and has started high school. He has excelled in school and is using the tools that Michele gave him to manage all the new stresses that come with this phase of his life.

Our daughter’s anxiety was terrible, for her and for us. I never thought I would send my 3 1/2 year old daughter to a therapist, but all our attempts to decrease J's rages and anger had failed. The first time J met Michele, J let me leave the room and she played with Michele for 45 minutes. I knew at that moment we had picked the right person to help our daughter. J is now a flourishing 7 year old. We have not seen Michele for years, but her lessons on identifying emotions and working with anxiety and frustration still help all of us. I am eternally grateful for Michele’s gentle demeanor and her incredible work with J.