About Michelle
Michelle Bronster is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who uses attachment-based, client-centered, and cognitive behavioral approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, and life changes. She keeps sessions practical and focused on what matters most to each person. Michelle aims to offer clear tools and steady support for everyday struggles.
She draws on ten years of clinical experience in New York. That background includes long-term work in correctional settings and with people facing medical and caregiving challenges.
Background and approach
Michelle has used group and individual formats and often teaches skills like emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Sessions tend to be solution-focused or short-term when that fits a person's goals. Michelle also offers longer support if someone wants to work deeper over time.
She commonly uses grounding, mindfulness, and cognitive techniques to reduce overwhelming feelings and improve sleep and daily functioning. People consult her for anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, compassion fatigue, and relationship or communication problems. She also addresses concerns such as ADHD, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and end-of-life issues.
The focus is on practical steps the person can use between sessions. Michelle works in English and practices in New York. She encourages questions about approach and what to expect in sessions.
Prospective clients are invited to use the site process to match and schedule a first appointment.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how relationships shape feelings and behavior. In sessions, this means looking at patterns in close relationships and building ways to feel safer and more connected. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test different behaviors to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and support better sleep. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness useful for intense emotions and relationship strain.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to choose techniques that match their goals and day-to-day life. That might mean starting with skill-building, then adding deeper exploration of attachment or values as needed.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a busy day or need less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are practical for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or if someone prefers writing between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules while keeping focus on the therapeutic work.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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