About Michele
Michele Bonanno is a licensed mental health counselor with 32 years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, relationship strain, and other common life pressures. Her manner is straightforward and calm, aimed at making difficult problems easier to talk about and manage.
Michele uses practical, evidence-informed methods in sessions. She listens first, then helps clients try small behavioral changes and new ways of thinking. She also focuses on emotions and attachment patterns when those are getting in the way of everyday life.
Background and approach
Clients can expect a warm, person-centered style. Michele offers tools from cognitive behavioral work to skills drawn from dialectical approaches. She pairs those with acceptance-based ideas to help people live by their values even when symptoms flare.
Her work covers many specific concerns including addictions, sleeping and eating issues, parenting stress, career transitions, compassion fatigue, and chronic illness. She pays special attention to attachment difficulties, abandonment, and foster care or adoption-related issues when they are part of a person's story. Michele practices in Florida as an LMHC - licensed mental health counselor.
She provides a mix of short-term coaching-style work and longer-term therapy depending on what a person needs. The focus is always on practical steps that fit a person's life and goals.
How Michele’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful when worry, low mood, or ADHD-related struggles interfere with moving toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing thought patterns and behaviors that keep problems going. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep disruption, and patterns that feed into relationship or work difficulties.Michele treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest ways to combine ACT, CBT, or attachment-focused work into a plan. The idea is to try things, check what helps, and adjust together as needed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video is helpful for full sessions and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat offers a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing coaching between sessions. These options let people pick what works best for their schedule and day-to-day needs.
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What this therapist works with
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- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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