Michelle Bronster

Michelle Bronster is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York. She brings a decade of clinical experience and a practical, down-to-earth approach to short-term and longer-term work. Michelle aims to be a steady, nonjudgmental presence whether someone needs brief support or ongoing sessions.

Michelle adapts her methods as needs change and combines techniques from several approaches. She often uses grounding and mindfulness exercises, emotion regulation skills, and communication practice. These tools are offered alongside problem-solving steps for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, caregiving strain, or grief.

Her background includes many years delivering Dialectical Behavior Therapy-style groups and individual work in challenging settings. That experience informs her focus on distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and practical coping strategies. She also lists experience with hospice and end-of-life counseling and with people facing chronic illness and aging concerns.

Michelle works with concerns such as relationship trouble, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, trauma and abuse, sleeping problems, self-esteem, and ADHD. She also notes experience supporting LGBTQ people and those from diverse cultural backgrounds. Her stated orientation is client-centered and adaptive to each person's goals.

Sessions may include psychoeducation, role-play, mindfulness, cognitive techniques, and skills practice. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule based on the therapist's availability.

How therapeutic approaches shape online care

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relationships and how early bonds shape current ways of connecting. It can help people understand patterns in close relationships and build more secure ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions influence each other and teaches practical steps to change unhelpful patterns like anxiety or low mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Over time the plan can change as needs shift, combining skills training, emotion work, and reflective listening where useful.

Confirm current session options before booking, as specific formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people practice skills and grounding exercises from their usual routines, then bring questions back to the session. Licensed professionals can help tailor pacing and homework so therapy fits into everyday life without adding extra strain.