About Michelle
Michelle Merindino is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She brings six years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood changes, and difficult life transitions. Michelle emphasizes a respectful, person-centered approach and aims to make therapy understandable and practical for each client.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about feelings and patterns that cause trouble. Michelle listens for how attachment, communication, and past hurts shape current reactions.
How Michelle works
She uses straightforward tools to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. Michelle draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify thought patterns that keep problems going. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect trust and closeness.
Motivational Interviewing helps when someone wants to change but feels stuck or uncertain. Therapy sessions focus on real-life choices and small, doable steps. Michelle helps people build better communication, stronger boundaries, and healthier coping skills.
She also addresses issues like body image, codependency, and workplace stress in practical ways. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Michelle works with people to set clear goals and track progress over time.
She aims to help clients find greater self-acceptance and more effective ways to handle life’s challenges.
Michelle lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Michelle uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns that feed anxiety, depression, and panic. CBT focuses on identifying thoughts, testing them, and trying new behaviors to reduce distress. Attachment-Based Therapy is used to explore how early relationship experiences shape trust, closeness, and communication in current relationships; this can help with abandonment worries, codependency, and emotional reactivity.Choosing an approach is a joint process. The therapist will discuss your goals, symptoms, and preferences and suggest techniques that match your needs. Sessions may combine elements of different approaches so the plan fits you rather than forcing one method.
Online sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people share thoughts in shorter bursts or between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or busy family schedules and support ongoing progress.
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