About Michelle
Michelle Bronster is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York who focuses on practical, skills-based work. She uses clear, straightforward methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, and ADHD. Michelle aims to be a steady, nonjudgmental presence whether someone needs short-term coping strategies or longer-term support.
She draws on about 10 years of clinical practice and has extensive experience running group and individual therapy in challenging settings.
Background and approach
That background shaped a hands-on style that emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and problem-solving. Sessions often include mindfulness, relaxation work, and concrete communication practice. Her approach adapts to each person.
Michelle blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques and skills from dialectical behavior therapy when helpful. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns and emotionally focused techniques for connection and repair. People are offered practical tools they can try between sessions.
That might mean role-play for a difficult conversation, simple grounding exercises for panic, or steps to improve sleep and daily routines. Michelle describes therapy as collaborative; she helps set goals and checks progress along the way. Services are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Michelle frames care around each person’s needs and will adjust session length and focus as progress is made.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based therapy looks at patterns in relationships and how early connections affect current emotions and behavior; it helps people understand recurring interaction patterns and make different choices in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical behavior changes, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, helpful when emotions feel overwhelming.Choosing the right approach is something the therapist does together with each person. Michelle will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust plans based on what actually helps. That collaborative process means methods can be combined or shifted as needs change.
Online therapy using video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat and text messaging provide quick check-ins and brief coaching between sessions. These options give flexibility for different schedules, energy levels, and communication preferences while keeping the therapeutic focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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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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