About Michele
Michele Bonanno is a Florida-based licensed mental health counselor with 32 years of experience helping people with stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and relationship struggles. She works with a wide range of concerns including self-esteem, ADHD, addictions, grief, intimacy issues, and parenting challenges. Michele keeps language simple and practical so families can read quickly and know what to expect.
She uses approaches that focus on the person rather than a checklist.
How Michele works
Sessions are interactive and goal-focused. Michele listens for patterns that cause pain and helps people try new ways of responding. She emphasizes skills people can use between sessions to manage mood, sleep, and reactions to stress.
Michele draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice thoughts and take values-based action. She also uses Attachment-Based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current behavior. Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools are offered for emotion regulation when needed.
Her practice covers many life stages and situations, from career strain and caregiving stress to coping with chronic illness and major life changes. Michele also supports people facing abandonment issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and body image or eating-related struggles. Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging, and international clients may be seen.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling through the Start Therapy flow.
Michele lists 18 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 32 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How Michele's approaches translate to online therapy
Michele uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. That approach is useful for anxiety, low mood, and navigating life changes. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to teach practical skills for changing thinking patterns and behaviors that keep problems going. CBT is often helpful for sleep, mood, and stress management.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Michele will work with each person to identify goals and try approaches that fit their needs and preferences. She often combines techniques so sessions address both immediate coping and longer-term patterns.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, or times when writing feels easier than speaking. These options let people fit therapy into work, travel, or busy family schedules.
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