About Michelle
Michelle Bronster is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York. She brings a decade of clinical experience and a compassionate, practical style to sessions. Michelle prefers to tailor work to each person and focuses on real-life skills you can use between appointments.
She uses methods that help people regulate emotions, manage stress, and change unhelpful thinking. That can look like learning grounding and mindfulness techniques, practicing communication skills, or trying short experiments to shift behavior.
How Michelle works
Sessions may be brief and solution-focused or extend over time depending on needs. Michelle has spent much of her career designing and leading group and individual work in challenging settings. That background means she is comfortable with crisis management, distress tolerance skills, and practical strategies for day-to-day coping.
She also helps people facing grief, caregiver strain, chronic illness, or major life transitions. Her approach is flexible and client-centered. Michelle listens first, then blends techniques such as cognitive behavioral tools, emotion-focused work, and attachment-informed ideas to match what is most helpful.
She encourages collaboration so goals and methods feel useful and clear. Sessions are offered in English and can include exercises like role-play, skill-building, and reminiscence when appropriate. Michelle aims to provide steady support while teaching tools that make daily life more manageable.
Michelle lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Michelle works with
The areas below are the ones Michelle selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online work
Attachment-informed work helps people notice patterns in close relationships and how those patterns affect feelings and reactions; it can be useful for improving connection and managing conflict. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and building a supportive space so the person can set the pace and goals of therapy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical steps to change thoughts and behaviors, such as tracking patterns, testing beliefs, and trying small behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety or lift mood.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to choose and adapt methods based on personal goals, symptoms, and daily routines. That collaboration makes it easier to try brief skill-based work or deeper exploration as needed.
Online sessions offer flexibility and concrete conveniences. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a short break or work around bandwidth limits. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, coaching between sessions, or when writing is a preferred way to process. These options make it easier to maintain consistency while fitting therapy into a busy life.
Start online instead of waiting
Our partner service asks a few questions about what you are looking for and matches you with a therapist for sessions from home.
Book with MichelleWe will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.
Common questions
What concerns does she help with?
What is her therapy style like?
What experience does she bring to sessions?
What credentials and location apply?
Which languages are supported and are international clients accepted?
How are sessions delivered?
How does pricing and payment work?
How do I begin therapy with her?
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.
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you. Entries are not assessed or endorsed by this directory.
Other entries for stress, anxiety
Supportive LCSW helping people build strength and clarity
Practical, trauma-aware therapy for everyday life
Practical, relational therapy for life transitions