Mental Health Counselor in NYC

Michele is a native New Yorker from Astoria, Queens and is of a multicultural background. She is half Italian, half Puerto Rican. As a first generation college student raised by a single mother of five in a working class family, Michele understands that mental health is not only a matter of pathology, but is intersectional, and is a factor amongst societal, economic, and historical constructs. Michele incorporates therapeutic techniques based on her client's needs. Michele is interested in many therapeutic frameworks but utilizes existentialism (philosophy), psychodynamic techniques, intersectionality, and cognitive behavior therapy. Michele is absolutely dedicated to not seeing people through singular and isolated frameworks, believing that all of us are deeply dimensional and need to be understood dimensionally.

Michele graduated from Binghamton University where she received her BA in Psychology, and took three semesters of graduate level Developmental Psychology at CUNY. Michele is currently pursuing her MA in Mental Health Counseling at Baruch College. She worked at the Depression Evaluation Service at Columbia Medical Center where she observed psychiatric and psychological intakes for those with treatment resistant depression and postpartum depression. In addition, she served as a career coach at The Door helping underserved youth in the Bronx find high quality employment and gain access to mental health services. Michele has an extensive background of working with individuals with treatment resistant depression, as well as those left out in the margins and bettering themselves despite inequity. She is interested and passionate about helping biracial and multicultural individuals own and understand their identities, addiction, eating disorders, gender identity, and academic trauma- specifically in BIPOC individuals and/or first generation college students. Michele is interested in helping people achieve their goals and overcome maladaptive habits due to trauma and intergenerational trauma.

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