About Michele
Michele Albano is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She offers calm, practical support for everyday problems and harder moments. Michele speaks in plain terms and focuses on small, useful steps that fit into busy lives.
She listens first to understand what feels most urgent. Then she helps people set simple goals and try approaches that can ease symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Michele has worked in New York since 1998. Her practice has addressed a wide range of concerns, including depression, grief, trauma, self-esteem, panic, postpartum struggles, and issues related to ADHD.
She also supports people facing caregiver stress, aging and geriatric challenges, and major life transitions. Her work draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and Mindfulness practices to build grounding skills. She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing when trauma processing is needed.
Michele adapts these methods to the situation at hand rather than following a single formula. She offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Michele works in English from New York and does not accept international clients.
To start, a short matching questionnaire helps pair a person with her and then scheduling follows.
How Michele uses evidence-based approaches online
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. It often includes homework like tracking patterns between thoughts, feelings, and actions.EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is used when past trauma keeps causing distress. It involves guided processing to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and related reactions.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and grounding practices to reduce rumination and increase present-moment focus, which can help with stress, panic, and sleep troubles.
Michele treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Then she helps design a plan that may combine CBT, EMDR, and mindfulness in ways that fit the person's needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options offer flexibility and make it possible to keep steady progress even with a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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