Nendler "Dee" Michel
Helping parents and families find clearer paths
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Nendler
Nendler "Dee" Michel welcomes families and parents who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to turn. He writes in a calm, conversational way and focuses on understanding the person first. Dee aims to create simple, realistic steps parents can try between sessions.
He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW with long experience in human services and family-related concerns. Dee uses a person-centered approach that treats each family member as an individual.
Background and approach
He mixes practical tools with conversations that focus on what matters most to the family. Sessions often include breathing or mindfulness exercises and straightforward strategies to manage stress and anxiety. He draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Motivational interviewing techniques are used when people are weighing change or struggling to build new habits. Narrative work helps families reframe painful stories and see strengths they may have missed. Dee has worked many years with people affected by the child welfare and justice systems, and with those facing addiction, trauma, or caregiver stress.
He also supports concerns common to parenting and blended families, including adoption and attachment issues. His style is practical and direct, offering real-world advice alongside emotional support. Sessions can cover parenting challenges, relationship struggles, grief, mood issues, and coping with life changes.
Dee helps clients set clear, doable goals and checks in on progress from week to week.
Therapeutic approaches for online family work
Client-centered therapy centers each session on the person's experience and priorities, offering a relaxed, conversational space to talk through parenting choices and family concerns. It helps families feel heard and shapes the work around their goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online CBT sessions can teach simple tools to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change patterns that get in the way of parenting or relationships.
Mindfulness therapy brings short breathing and awareness exercises into sessions to reduce stress and help parents respond rather than react. These practices are easy to use between sessions and can calm the body during tense family moments.
Deciding which approach to use is collaborative. Dee will work with each person to pick methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level and will adjust techniques as progress is made. The early sessions are often about finding the right mix together.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to get help without extra travel. Video calls recreate face-to-face conversation, phone sessions provide a simpler audio option, and live chat or text messaging allow short check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy family lives while keeping the focus on practical steps and steady progress.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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