Giusita Michelle Vitale (pronouns she/ella) is a licensed counselor and coach offering remote sessions to clients living in RI or PA. Michelle works with adults navigating transitions or challenges in their lives, work, or education, and her practice aims to help clients transform their challenges into opportunities for greater learning, possibility, and growth.
Her work with clients blends both compassion and practical skills that holistically support personal and professional development; her clients build clarity, confidence, and take bold action in a fulfilling direction.
Michelle offers individual counseling, coaching or a blend of both. Additionally, Michelle holds group sessions, as she believes the interplay between and among group participants can create exponential possibilities for growth and positive change.
Michelle was born and raised in Venezuela, in a biracial family and immigrated to the United States as a teen. Spanish is her native language. She received her Masters in Counseling Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania with a course of study focused on Multicultural Counseling. Prior to her work in counseling, she studied Business Administration at Babson College, worked in the private sector, and spent a year researching women’s leadership in Santiago de Chile as a Fulbright Scholar.
Her sessions are remote, secure video sessions that can be in either English or Spanish.
College, graduate, and medical student mental health - Navigating transitions and pressures in balancing workload, high demands, school and personal life, and career exploration.
Women’s issues - Women’s health, motherhood, child-free living, confidence, relationships and dating, navigating divorce, finding one's voice, shame resilience, making time for yourself and healing your energy, career management, etc.
Women in STEM-related fields - Working with women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics related fields facing personal or professional challenges.
Navigating transitions in life and work - Strengthen courage and compassion skills to explore current challenges, create possibility by designing what’s next, and define how you want to inhabit your next phase
Cultural adjustments, migration trauma, multiculturalism - Healthy transitions into new situations or environments, building cultural awareness, improving ability to interact across differences, navigating multiculturalism, cultural identity. Including work with international students
Strengthening healthy relationships with self and others - Increasing self-compassion, confidence and assertiveness, building trust in relationships, and improving relational dynamics with others
Strengthening emotional resilience - Improving your ability to adapt to changes, challenges and stressful situations
Mindfulness + self-compassion - Cultivating a braver and kinder sense of self; increasing assertiveness, confidence, and self-acceptance
Life transitions - Coping with difficult or impactful life changes, such as moving to a new area, relationship transitions, child rearing, or career changes; learning self-care to better manage resulting stress
This provider can support you in getting reimbursement from your insurance company if you are seeking out-of-network reimbursement. Here are the out-of-network billing options they provide:
Michelle is not in-network with other insurances, but she can assist you in processing claims for out-of-network reimbursements.
Private Practice, Counseling and Coaching, 2016 - Present
Be Collaborative Care, Mind-Body Therapist, 2016 - 2019
The Providence Center, Bilingual Clinical Counselor, 2014 - 2016
University of Pennsylvania, Masters in Counseling Psychology, 2014
Universidad del Desarrollo, Fulbright Scholar, 2011
Certified Yoga Teacher, 2009
Babson College, Bachelor in Business Administration, 2007
NBCC, Nationally Certified Counselor
UMASS Medical School, Certification track for Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
English
Spanish
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"You can really connect to her as a person and she helps you achieve specific goals in self-improvement."
- Brown University alum'19 • September 2019"Very welcoming and warm, made me feel at ease instantly and was very clear about the services she could offer me."
- Zencare client • November 2019"Michelle was warm, attentive, and thoughtful during our phone call. She listened to me speak a little bit and then immediately had ideas about how we might work together. I am eager for my first session and the conversations to come."
- Zencare client • June 2020