About Michelle
Michelle Merindino is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She brings six years of clinical experience and a practical, person-focused way of working. Michelle aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk through worries and everyday struggles without feeling judged.
Michelle often helps people cope with anxiety, depression, mood concerns, and stress that comes from work or life changes. She also supports issues like relationship struggles, self-esteem, body image, addiction concerns, anger, and trauma.
Background and approach
Her practice pays attention to patterns that repeat in relationships, such as attachment and abandonment worries. Her style is client-centered and humanistic, which means she follows each person’s pace and focuses on their priorities. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify thinking patterns that feed upsetting feelings and to try different ways of responding.
Motivational Interviewing is used when someone needs help finding the motivation to change behaviors or tackle difficult decisions. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Michelle works with people to build self-awareness, stronger communication, and practical coping skills.
She emphasizes small, manageable steps rather than big, sudden changes. Many clients come for help with work stress, social anxiety, panic, or feeling stuck after life transitions. Michelle supports exploring those concerns, learning new strategies, and practicing healthier patterns over time.
She encourages people to try approaches that fit their needs and values.
How Michelle’s approaches translate to online therapy
Michelle blends client-centered care with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and motivational interviewing to address everyday worries and bigger life shifts. Client-centered work focuses on listening, building trust, and following the person’s lead to set goals and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at thought patterns that increase anxiety or low mood and tests new, more helpful ways of thinking and behaving. Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change and strengthens commitment to goals.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Michelle discusses goals and preferences with each person and adapts methods as needed. She works together with clients to try different techniques and chooses what feels most useful for the situation and pace of progress.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and texts are convenient for brief updates, homework check-ins, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make scheduling more flexible and allow therapy to fit work, school, or busy family routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English