About Michelle
Michelle Merindino is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She brings six years of clinical experience and focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, mood concerns, and life transitions. Michelle works in a straightforward, person-centered way and aims to build a respectful, trusting relationship with each person she sees.
She creates a calm, non-judgmental space where people can talk through emotions and difficult moments. Sessions often focus on understanding patterns that keep problems going and learning practical skills to respond differently.
Background and approach
Michelle uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behavior patterns. Michelle also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early bonds and close relationships shape current reactions. Motivational Interviewing is used when people are weighing change or feeling stuck.
She adapts methods to match a person's goals and pacing rather than following a single strict approach. Typical work includes building coping tools, improving communication, addressing anxiety and panic, and exploring issues like self-esteem, codependency, or workplace stress. She has experience with mood disorders and trauma-related concerns and supports people through major life adjustments.
Michelle aims to help people leave sessions with concrete next steps. She focuses on small, doable changes that fit daily life. Progress is talked about in plain terms and reviewed regularly.
How Michelle’s approaches work in online care
Michelle often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is practical and works well for anxiety, panic, and mood concerns by teaching tools people can use between sessions.She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy ideas to look at how close relationships affect feelings and reactions. That approach helps when relational patterns, abandonment worries, or difficulties with trust come up.
Finding the best approach is part of the work together. Michelle collaborates with each person to pick techniques that match their goals, preferences, and pace. She adapts methods over time as needs change rather than sticking to one plan.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and nonverbal cues, while phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text works well for quick check-ins, shorter coaching-style exchanges, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit sessions into workdays, travel, or busy family schedules and keep consistent momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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