About Michele
Michele Bonanno is a licensed mental health counselor with 32 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, phobias, trauma, and mood concerns. She offers steady support for common struggles like low self-esteem, sleep and eating problems, addiction patterns, and relationship or intimacy worries. Michele listens first and meets each person where they are.
Sessions focus on practical steps that fit everyday life. She uses clear tools and calm guidance so people can try things between visits and notice small changes.
Background and approach
Her work draws on several approaches to match a person's needs. Michele blends techniques from cognitive behavioral work to challenge unhelpful thoughts, acceptance-based strategies to build values-driven action, and attachment-focused ideas to improve connection and trust. She also uses skills from dialectical behavior work to manage intense emotions.
Over decades of practice she has supported people through big life transitions, parenting strain, caregiving stress, grief, and chronic illness. Michele also addresses issues tied to abandonment, adoption and foster care, and attachment wounds that affect daily relationships. People can expect a straightforward, compassionate style.
Michele aims to make therapy understandable and useful, helping clients set clear goals and practice new habits. She works with adult clients in Florida and accepts international clients who prefer English sessions. Practical session options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Michele holds a Florida LMHC credential and brings long-term clinical experience to each session.
How Michele’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, avoidance, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve sleep, mood, and daily functioning. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connection patterns affect current relationships and helps people build safer ways of relating and trusting others.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and try methods that match those aims. Over several sessions the plan can shift based on what helps most, so clients play an active role in deciding what feels useful.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you work face to face when discussing emotions or doing interactive exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to use video. Live chat or text messaging work well for brief check-ins, skill practice, or quick support between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping treatment consistent.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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