Michelle Bronster
Practical therapy for family and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michelle
Michelle Bronster is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York. She draws on ten years of clinical experience and uses an adaptable, practical approach in sessions. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, parenting and family matters, grief, trauma, and related challenges.
Michelle emphasizes clear communication and straightforward tools that a worried parent can use right away. Her style blends attachment-informed thinking with client-centered care and cognitive-behavioral techniques.
Background and approach
She also has training in dialectical behavior therapy and emotionally-focused methods, and will mix approaches to match each person’s needs. Sessions often include simple exercises such as grounding, mindfulness, and skills for emotion regulation. Michelle has substantial experience delivering group and individual work in challenging settings.
That background informs her calm, goal-oriented way of working and her focus on usable strategies. Parents and caregivers often get brief skills to manage stress and improve daily routines. She offers multiple session formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Sessions are provided in English and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule based on the therapist’s availability. Michelle aims to provide practical support whether someone needs short-term problem solving or longer-term guidance.
How therapeutic approaches work in online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy highlights patterns in close relationships and helps people notice how early bonds shape current reactions. In practical terms this often means talking through how connection and trust affect parenting, caregiving, and everyday stress responses.Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so the person feels understood. That approach helps people clarify goals, feel heard, and decide what small changes to try between sessions.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches simple tools to shift unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, sleep problems, low mood, and building coping skills that parents can use day to day.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods based on needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions begin by identifying priorities and then using techniques that fit the client’s life and schedule.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. That range makes it easier to use short check-ins, practice skills between sessions, and maintain continuity when life is busy. For many people this format helps them get timely, focused support without rearranging their whole day.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
Next step
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