About Michele
Michele Albano offers straightforward support for people feeling stressed, anxious, depressed, or overwhelmed by life changes. She is a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW, practicing in New York and brings a steady presence to conversations about tough moments. Michele focuses on helping individuals sort through immediate problems and build practical ways to cope.
She uses talk, practical strategies, and skills practice to address worries, low mood, relationship strain, grief, trauma, and self-esteem problems.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on what is happening now and what can change in the near term. Michele adapts plans to each person’s needs and pace rather than using a one-size-fits-all method. Across 25 years as a social worker she has worked with people at many stages of life.
That experience includes support for issues such as parenting stress, caregiving burdens, aging concerns, mood disorders, panic, postpartum difficulties, and compassion fatigue. She also helps with career stress, identity and LGBT-related concerns, and coping after loss or betrayal. Michele incorporates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, and mindfulness techniques when they fit the person’s goals.
She explains approaches plainly and works with clients to choose what feels most helpful. Sessions are offered in English for people located in New York. Her aim is a warm, empathic space where people can talk through what’s hard and build realistic steps forward.
People who want clear tools and steady support often find this practical, experience-based approach useful.
Therapeutic methods you can use online
Many people find Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helpful for changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT focuses on identifying thoughts that lead to stress or low mood and testing small changes to see what helps. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is a method used for processing traumatic memories and reducing their emotional intensity through guided attention and eye movement or similar techniques. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus and sleep.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust over time. Clients and the therapist decide together whether a particular technique is helpful and when to move in a different direction.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit a busy life. Video lets people use visual cues and a conversational rhythm similar to in-person sessions. Phone sessions can be lower-bandwidth and easier to fit during a work break. Live chat and text messaging work well for short check-ins, processing between sessions, or people who prefer writing. These options provide flexibility for different schedules and needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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