Michelle Merindino, LMHC

Michelle Merindino is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in New York with six years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, addiction concerns, trauma and other mood issues. Michelle lists codependency and attachment issues among the focuses she addresses.

Michelle uses a person-centered, humanistic outlook in sessions. She aims to build a respectful therapeutic relationship and to help clients talk through emotions and interpersonal challenges. She listens for patterns that get in the way of daily life and helps people name those patterns.

She commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. That approach is used alongside attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current reactions. Motivational interviewing may be used when someone is weighing change and needs help finding reasons and steps that feel doable.

In practical terms Michelle helps people develop coping skills, improve communication, and increase self-awareness. She works on concrete goals such as managing panic, reducing social anxiety, addressing workplace stress, and setting firmer personal boundaries. She also supports people dealing with abandonment concerns, body image difficulties, and isolation.

Sessions focus on clear steps and regular check-ins about progress. Michelle encourages clients to consider small experiments between meetings and to track how new strategies affect daily functioning. Her aim is to help people recognize destructive patterns and practice different ways of responding.

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