About Michele
Michele Bonanno is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and the everyday strains of life. She brings 32 years of clinical experience and a calm, practical manner to sessions. Parents and professionals often look to her for strategies to handle sleep and eating disruptions, relationship strain, or coping with big life changes.
She uses straightforward, person-centered work. Conversations focus on what feels stuck and what can be changed.
Background and approach
Michele offers concrete tools people can use between sessions to reduce overwhelm and build steadier routines. Michele draws on several approaches to tailor care to each person. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and action steps, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts, and Attachment-Based ideas to make sense of relationship patterns.
She also incorporates Client-Centered and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques where they fit. Over three decades she has supported people facing addiction, ADHD, grief, caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image and intimacy concerns. Michele pays attention to how past losses, abandonment, or adoption history can shape current relationships and choices.
Sessions with Michele are practical and collaborative. She listens first, then offers simple experiments and skill-building tailored to daily life. The goal is clearer priorities, fewer crises, and more predictable days.
How Michele’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people name what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to live with uncomfortable feelings. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. Michele uses CBT to teach practical skills for managing negative thinking, improving sleep and eating patterns, and reducing panic or low mood.
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people understand patterns in relationships that come from earlier connections. It can be helpful for intimacy issues, abandonment wounds, and recurring conflict patterns.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Michele will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs, adjusting the plan as you progress. She mixes tools from different approaches when that makes sense for your situation.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let you work face to face from wherever you are, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging make brief check-ins simple, and text can support ongoing coaching between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to use the format that helps you engage most effectively.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- 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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