About Nendler
Nendler "Dee" Michel is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York who focuses on practical help for everyday struggles. He greets people with a relaxed, conversational style and aims to understand the whole person before offering suggestions. Dee draws on 24 years of experience in human services to guide conversations toward clear next steps.
He blends a person-centered approach with practical coaching skills. Sessions often include problem-solving, goal-setting, and simple tools for managing stress and mood.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to help people notice thoughts that get in the way and try small experiments to think and act differently. Mindfulness practices such as breathing and brief meditations are offered when helpful to calm the body and focus attention. Motivational interviewing is used to support change when someone feels stuck or uncertain about next steps.
Narrative ideas are sometimes used to reframe difficult life chapters and reduce shame or self-blame. Dee has substantial experience working with people affected by trauma, neglect, and the child welfare and justice systems. He also supports concerns around addiction, grief, relationship conflict, parenting stress, and work-life balance.
His background includes long-term work in nutrition, fitness, and wellness that informs practical, health-focused suggestions. Sessions aim to increase self-understanding and to build concrete skills clients can use between meetings. Dee emphasizes collaboration and steady progress, helping people move toward the changes they want in manageable steps.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dee commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy in online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting and testing unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavior changes to improve mood and functioning. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple breathing and attention exercises to reduce reactivity and help people stay grounded during stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dee collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level, and he adjusts techniques as progress is made. Clients are encouraged to give feedback so sessions stay practical and useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allow flexibility for different days and situations. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can handle brief check-ins, and texting supports ongoing coaching-style reminders. These options make it easier to keep consistent momentum and fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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