Michele Bonanno, LMHC
Compassionate, experienced guide for life’s difficult moments
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How Michele works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Years in practice
- 32
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Michele
Michele Bonanno is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 32 years of experience helping people manage stress, anger, anxiety, depression, and addiction. She offers steady, direct support for practical problems and big emotional issues. Michele listens without judgment and helps people find clearer steps forward.
She uses a mix of methods to suit each person’s needs. Sessions focus on skills you can use between meetings, like emotion regulation, coping strategies, and clearer communication.
Background and approach
Michele draws on cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thoughts and dialectical skills to manage strong emotions. Attachment-based ideas help uncover patterns from close relationships that shape reactions today. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people move toward values-driven action even when uncomfortable feelings come up.
The work is collaborative, with the therapist and client picking what fits best. Michele brings decades of practical experience to common life transitions. She supports people dealing with grief, career shifts, parenting strain, chronic illness, and intimacy concerns.
Sessions also address ADHD-related challenges, body image, and blended family stress. Therapy can be flexible in format and goal-driven. Michele helps clients set clear, achievable targets and builds in homework or practice when helpful.
Her aim is to leave people with tools they can use on their own after therapy ends.
What Michele works with
Everything Michele lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Michele's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- ADHD
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- 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
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Michele lists
- 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
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take action toward those values even when negative feelings are present. It focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck and building small, meaningful steps forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical strategies to shift unhelpful thinking patterns and manage symptoms like anxiety or depression. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns influence reactions today and helps people develop new ways of relating and coping.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michele will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. That might mean blending ACT with CBT skills or bringing in attachment ideas when relationships are central to the concern.
Online therapy offers flexibility and many ways to stay connected. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to schedule consistent sessions, fit therapy around work or caregiving, and practice new skills in everyday life.
Questions people ask about Michele
What kinds of problems does Michele help with?
She supports people facing stress, anger, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and relationship or intimacy concerns, among other life challenges.
What is her general therapy style?
She uses a collaborative, practical approach focused on teaching skills and setting achievable goals. Sessions often include practice exercises and tools to use between meetings.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 32 years of experience working with a wide range of emotional and life issues.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Florida LMHC, which stands for Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and practices from Florida.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be held via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Michele?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.