Michelle Bronster, LCSW

Michelle Bronster is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in New York. She draws on a range of approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, and changes in life. Michelle aims to offer short-term, solution-focused support as well as longer-term guidance when needed. She often uses grounding and mindfulness exercises when requested.

With ten years of experience, Michelle adapts her methods to fit each person's needs as they change. Her background includes extensive work in jail-based settings where she led Dialectical Behavior Therapy group and individual work. That experience shaped her practical focus on emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills.

Her sessions may include psychoeducation, cognitive behavioral strategies, and interpersonal communication work. She also uses motivational techniques, narrative and reminiscence methods, and role-play for skills practice. These tools are chosen to help people manage everyday thoughts and habits, cope with trauma or loss, and improve problem solving.

Michelle has worked with people facing compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, intellectual disability, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and challenges related to identity and acculturation. She describes her style as accepting and adaptive, aiming to do no harm while collaborating with clients on goals.

To start, she asks people to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule based on availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and pricing varies with location and therapist scheduling.

Approaches that shape online work

Michelle often blends Attachment-Based Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change patterns in thoughts and everyday habits. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape expectations and responses, which can help when relationship stress or attachment questions cause ongoing worry. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and ease low mood.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Michelle will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest techniques to try. Over time, she adapts methods as needs evolve so therapy stays practical and relevant to daily life.

Please confirm the available session options before booking, as formats are not listed here. Many people find online work useful because it can fit into busy schedules, make it easier to join from different locations, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. Online sessions can also make it simpler to practice skills in real-time between appointments and to introduce mindfulness and grounding exercises into ordinary routines.