About Michele
Michele Forte is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people through hard transitions. She works with grief, self-esteem struggles, and life changes. Michele also offers coaching for motivation and professional growth.
She keeps sessions practical and focused on the client’s goals. Michele tailors conversations and plans to each person’s situation. She aims to help clients find clearer priorities and take small steps toward change.
Her background includes two decades of clinical practice in New York as an LCSW.
How Michele works
That experience includes supporting people dealing with divorce, infidelity, loneliness, and midlife concerns. She also addresses money and workplace issues that affect daily life. In sessions she listens for strengths and patterns that get in the way.
Then she suggests straightforward strategies to build confidence and cope with loss or transitions. She explains options and works with the client to pick what feels doable. Michele treats coaching and therapy as a partnership.
She helps clients set goals, try new behaviors, and review progress. The focus is on practical change, steady supports, and helping people move toward what matters to them.
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.
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Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online therapy
Evidence-based techniques focus on practical change and coping. One common approach emphasizes grief work that helps people name losses, process emotions, and build routines that feel stabilizing. This kind of work is useful after the death of a loved one, a breakup, or other significant loss.A second approach targets self-esteem and motivation through skill-building and behavioral steps. Sessions focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing new behaviors, and reinforcing small successes. That method helps when confidence, work performance, or direction feel stalled.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals, review options, and try approaches that match needs and preferences. They will adjust the plan over time based on what works and what doesn’t.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people have fuller conversations and see nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, day-to-day support, or when writing things out helps clarify thoughts. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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