About Michelle
Michelle Bronster is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York. She has ten years of clinical experience and focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and coping with life changes. She uses practical strategies and conversational support to help people manage day-to-day struggles and stronger emotional reactions.
Michelle adapts her approach to match what each person needs. Sessions can be shorter and solution-focused or longer term depending on goals.
Background and approach
She often combines techniques such as mindfulness, relaxation training, and emotion regulation to help people regain calm and function. Her background includes lengthy work in institutional settings where she led DBT-based groups and individual sessions. That experience shaped a straightforward style that blends skills practice with chances to talk through painful events and difficult feelings.
Michelle also brings experience with grief, trauma, compassion fatigue, and caregiver stress. Common tools she uses are cognitive behavioral strategies, interpersonal communication skills, and grounding exercises. She can also include narrative approaches, role-play, and reminiscence work when relevant.
These tools are chosen to make daily life more manageable and to reduce distressing reactions. Michelle works with concerns related to ADHD, sleep problems, self-esteem, and identity issues including LGBT matters. She also addresses challenges tied to aging, chronic illness, and end-of-life care.
Sessions are offered in English and tailored to each person’s circumstances.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions work
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and emotional bonds. It helps people understand how early connection styles affect current relationships and reactions. Client-centered therapy puts the person's experience at the center and emphasizes empathy, listening, and working at a comfortable pace. It helps people feel heard and discover their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical ways to identify unhelpful thinking and change behaviors that maintain anxiety or low mood.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through your needs, goals, and preferences and suggest which methods to try first. Over time, techniques can be adjusted or combined to better fit progress and changing circumstances.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls let you work face-to-face when bandwidth allows. Phone sessions can be easier when a camera isn't wanted or when internet is limited. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, skills practice, or when a written conversation fits your schedule better.
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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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