About Michele
Michele Forte is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with twenty years of professional experience. She helps people facing grief and loss, low self-esteem, motivation struggles, and major life changes. She also offers coaching for executives and professionals who want clearer goals and better work-life balance.
Michele focuses on practical conversation and clear steps. Sessions are shaped to each person's situation and goals. She listens for the things that are getting in the way and helps identify small, doable moves forward.
Background and approach
Her background includes two decades of client work in New York settings. That experience informs how she reads common patterns around career stress, relationship breakdowns, and midlife transitions. She draws on approaches that are rooted in research and adapted to real-life demands.
In therapy she balances support with action. People leave sessions with tools to manage grief, rebuild confidence, and navigate decisions like separation or career change. Coaching conversations aim to sharpen priorities and create a plan you can follow between meetings.
Michele works with each person to create a tailored plan. That plan may include short-term problem solving or longer work on self-image and purpose. Her style is steady, straightforward, and focused on helping people move toward clearer, more manageable next steps.
Evidence-based approaches for online support
Michele uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach is goal-focused coaching, which breaks larger problems into clear, time-bound steps and suits people facing career choices or transitions. Another approach emphasizes grief work that helps people process loss through conversations, memory work, and manageable coping strategies.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Michele will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. Together they decide whether short-term coaching, focused grief work, or a blend of techniques will best support progress.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for this work. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper interaction, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide flexible ways to get support between sessions and to share updates or quick reflections. These formats make it simpler to fit sessions into busy schedules and to maintain momentum between meetings.
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- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English