Michelle Bronster

Michelle Bronster is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in New York with 10 years of experience supporting adults across life stages and from diverse cultural backgrounds. She works with clients ranging from young adults to older adults and draws on a breadth of clinical experience to tailor care to each person.

Much of Michelle’s background includes more than nine years primarily working in a jail-based setting, where she designed and led Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) informed treatment groups and provided individual therapy. She practices with unconditional acceptance and a commitment to do no harm, keeping the client’s needs central as therapy progresses.

Michelle uses an adaptive approach and may combine techniques as appropriate, integrating psychoeducation, mindfulness, emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills, cognitive and narrative strategies, interpersonal skills work, motivational interviewing, solutions-focused methods, and role-playing or mock interviews when helpful. She currently emphasizes shorter-term, solutions-focused services that can be adjusted to meet clinical needs and can include grounding and mindfulness exercises on request.

Her areas of clinical focus include stress and anxiety, relationship difficulties, depression, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, LGBTQ+ concerns, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, sleep disorders, parenting challenges, self-esteem, and ADHD. Michelle holds a New York clinical social work license (Licensed Clinical Social Worker, license number 083394).

She is currently available on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, with the possibility of early morning, late night, or alternate day appointments by request. Prospective clients are invited to review her background and ask any questions to determine whether she might be a good fit for their needs.