Michele Albano, LCSW

Michele Albano is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience based in New York. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or life changes. Michele aims to make sessions a calm place to talk, set practical goals, and regain day-to-day focus.

She spends time learning what brought each person in and builds a plan that fits their pace and needs. Michele offers a warm, compassionate approach and tries to make conversations straightforward and useful. She supports work on self-esteem, relationship and communication concerns, parenting stresses, and coping with caregiving or aging-related challenges.

Her work includes attention to trauma and post-traumatic stress, panic, bipolar mood concerns, and perinatal mood issues like postpartum depression. Michele also helps with issues around intimacy, eating and sleep struggles, and career-related transitions. She draws on evidence-informed practices to guide sessions toward concrete changes.

Michele uses methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, and EMDR to address symptoms and build coping skills. She has experience across a wide age range, and she describes her role as helping people talk through what matters and try new ways of handling problems.

To begin, she asks about what’s been hard and works collaboratively to set goals. Michele emphasizes making plans that fit everyday life and the realities people bring to sessions.

How Michele's approaches translate to online work

Michele uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try small behavioral changes. CBT is practical and often focuses on skills for anxiety, depression, sleep, and stress. EMDR involves processing distressing memories in a structured way to reduce their emotional hold; it is commonly used for trauma and post-traumatic stress. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that can lower reactivity and improve focus.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Michele will talk with each person about their concerns, goals, and preferences and suggest one or more methods to try. Decisions are collaborative and can change as needs evolve.

The biography does not specify which online session formats are used, so confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Licensed professionals can also adapt exercises, homework, and mindfulness practices to work over distance so therapy supports real-life routines and responsibilities.