Michele Bonanno

Michele Bonanno is a licensed mental health counselor with 32 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, anger, grief, and relationship strain. She focuses on practical steps that ease day-to-day pressure and help people feel more steady. Michele writes plainly and listens for what matters most to each person. Her style is person-centered and collaborative. She uses a mix of approaches to suit different problems, drawing on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and attachment-informed work. Sessions aim to identify patterns, build new skills, and try small changes that add up over time. Michele has supported people through trauma, depression, ADHD challenges, addiction concerns, caregiving stress, and major life transitions. She also addresses issues like body image, parenting strain, intimacy-related difficulties, and career stress. Her long experience makes her comfortable working with layered or long-term concerns. In session she combines practical skill training with space for emotion and meaning. That might look like learning coping tools for overwhelming feelings, practicing new responses in relationships, or clarifying values and next steps. Michele helps people set achievable goals and checks progress together. Clients from different places can work with her; sessions are offered in English. She maintains a respectful, steady approach and emphasizes collaboration, not one-size-fits-all solutions. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.

How Michele’s approaches translate to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that reflect their values; it’s useful for anxiety, anger, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds shape current responses, which can help with intimacy issues and relationship stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns, often helping with depression, anxiety, and anger management.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Michele works with each person to identify goals, try different methods, and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful. She emphasizes practical steps along with understanding the story behind the difficulty.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow check-ins that might be shorter or more flexible around work and caregiving commitments. Therapists and licensed professionals often adapt exercises, skill coaching, and emotional processing to work well in remote sessions, and Michele uses her clinical approaches to shape how that work looks for each person.