Michele Bonanno, LMHC

Michele Bonanno is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 32 years of clinical experience. She provides practical help for stress, anxiety, trauma, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and a broad range of emotional concerns. Michele listens carefully and works with each person to set clear goals and manageable steps.

Her style is direct and compassionate. Sessions focus on skills you can use right away and on understanding patterns that keep problems repeating. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to reframe unhelpful thoughts and on acceptance-based work to clarify values and next steps.

Michele also uses attachment-based and client-centered approaches to help people feel heard and understood. She pays attention to how past relationships shape current reactions and supports people in building new ways of relating. Dialectical behavior ideas are used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills are helpful.

Her practice supports many life concerns beyond mood and anxiety, including ADHD, addictions, grief, parenting strain, career stress, body image, chronic illness, and compassion fatigue. Michele helps people tackle both everyday problems and deeper, recurring patterns so they can move forward with more confidence.

Sessions are offered in English and Michele works with people in Florida as well as international clients. She aims to make the work practical, respectful, and tailored to each person’s needs.

How Michele’s Approaches Work Online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, committed steps toward those values while noticing difficult thoughts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought and behavior patterns to reduce symptoms and improve functioning. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current reactions and helps people develop new ways of relating and responding.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which strategies fit best based on goals, preferences, and how someone responds in early sessions. That collaborative process can include trying different techniques until the right mix emerges.

The original biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by removing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins during a break, or making scheduling across time zones more manageable. Licensed professionals can use these methods effectively to teach skills, process emotional material, and set practical goals, just as they do in traditional sessions.