About Michele
Michele Bonanno helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and mood struggles. She works with adults facing issues like depression, ADHD, addiction, grief, and relationship concerns. Michele brings a calm, straightforward style and focuses on practical steps that fit everyday life.
She uses clear, talk-based work to help people feel less overwhelmed. Sessions often include thinking through specific problems, learning new coping skills, and practicing small changes between meetings. Michele aims to make therapy feel useful from the first few sessions.
Background and approach
With 32 years of experience, Michele draws on several well-known approaches such as cognitive behavioral methods and acceptance-based techniques. She also uses attachment-informed ideas to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. Michele keeps explanations plain so people can try things that actually help.
Michele holds a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential, LMHC, and sees people via online formats that fit busy schedules. She accepts international clients and conducts work in English. Treatment plans are shaped around each person’s goals and pace.
Clients can expect a collaborative process where Michele asks practical questions and outlines clear steps. She pays attention to strengths and to small successes. The focus is on skills that reduce distress, improve relationships, and support long-term changes.
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that align with their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions by focusing on what matters most and taking small consistent steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them. It often involves short exercises and homework to practice new ways of thinking and acting between sessions.
Attachment-Based Therapy examines patterns from early relationships that affect current trust and closeness. It can help people who struggle with intimacy, abandonment concerns, or repeated relationship cycles.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they shape a plan that borrows from different methods when needed and tests what works.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and have longer sessions, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging support shorter check-ins, written reflections, and ongoing coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or travel schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English