About Michelle
Michelle Bronster is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York. She brings ten years of practice to her work and focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, relationship struggles, grief, and life transitions. Michelle uses a practical, down-to-earth style in sessions.
She listens first, then offers tools such as mindfulness, grounding exercises, and coping skills. Sessions may be short-term and solution-focused or extend longer when needed.
Background and approach
Her background includes extensive work with people facing trauma, compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and end-of-life concerns. She has experience supporting people with ADHD, sleep problems, self-esteem issues, and complex medical or caregiving situations. Michelle draws on several therapeutic approaches to fit each person’s needs.
She mixes attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioral tools, emotion-focused strategies, and dialectical behavior techniques depending on what will help most. She also uses practical methods like role-playing, relaxation training, and psychoeducation. In sessions she aims to be accepting and adaptable.
She helps people learn emotion regulation, improve communication, and build problem-solving skills. The goal is clearer thinking and easier day-to-day coping. Michelle offers sessions in English and works with people in New York.
Her practice includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. To begin, a simple matching process helps connect people to her schedule.
How specific approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how past bonds affect current connections. Online sessions use conversations and reflective exercises to notice those patterns and practice new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches skills to change unhelpful patterns. In remote sessions, CBT often includes short exercises, homework, and step-by-step skill building. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people identify and shift strong emotional responses to feel more connected and regulated; online meetings use guided reflection and structured exercises to work through intense feelings.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan as needed. Clients and the therapist decide together which tools and strategies fit best for the situation.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when meeting in person is hard. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins or ongoing support possible between sessions. These options increase flexibility and make it easier to use techniques, practice skills, and follow up consistently.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also works with
- 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