About Michele
Michele Albano greets visitors with calm and straightforward care. She is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience in New York. Michele aims to help people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or life transitions.
She focuses on making therapy practical and manageable for busy lives. Michele listens for the problems that get in the way of daily functioning, such as sleep disruption, low mood, panic, or trouble with self-esteem.
How Michele works
She also works with people facing trauma, eating or intimacy-related concerns, and neurodiverse challenges like ADHD. Sessions are shaped around each person's needs and goals. Her approach draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, and mindfulness practices.
Michele uses these methods to help people identify unhelpful patterns, process painful memories, and build coping skills that can be used between sessions. She describes therapy as a collaborative effort and keeps work focused and accessible. Clients can expect straightforward language and practical steps rather than technical terms.
Michele emphasizes a warm, empathetic presence while working toward measurable changes. She tailors pace and tools to what feels useful for each person. Therapy with Michele is offered in English and provided through remote session formats.
New clients begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on availability. The subscription can be canceled at any time.
Michele lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Michele works with
The areas below are the ones Michele selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Michele uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT focuses on small, practical experiments people can try between sessions to reduce worry, improve sleep, or manage panic. EMDR is offered to help process traumatic memories that continue to cause distress. It can be useful when painful experiences get replayed in thoughts or reactions and when people want to lessen those intense reactions. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase focus in daily life.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Michele will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit their situation. Decisions are made collaboratively and can be adjusted as progress unfolds.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or on the go, live chat lets someone check in quickly, and messaging supports short updates or ongoing reflections between meetings. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules and life demands.
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