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Michelle Vitale (she/ella) is a Holistic Psychotherapist and Coach. Michelle specializes in a trauma-sensitive style of therapy informed by somatic embodiment, mindfulness, and compassion. Her intention is to support your healing journey towards embodied, compassionate, whole-hearted living. In her work, she centers the ongoing cultivation of your capacity to feel, sense, trust and enjoy your body's sovereign wisdom.
Michelle offers individual counseling and coaching. She also guides group sessions, as she believes the interplay between and among group participants can create exponential possibilities for growth and positive change.
Based on her own lived experience with immigration and multiculturalism, Michelle specializes in centering multicultural identities and the life-long effects of immigration trauma across generations. Her work centers on the importance of deepening a sovereign sense of belonging to ourselves.
Additionally, based on her previous background in business and research at the intersection of social enterprises and women's leadership, Michelle particularly enjoys supporting executives, entrepreneurs, and business owners in cultivating their emotional resilience and compassionate self-leadership.
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 Master's 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. She offers sessions via secure video, to people living in RI. Sessions can be in either English or Spanish.
Years of Experience: 11 years
Business Leader / Entrepreneur Mental Health Trauma Healing - Cultivating compassionate self-leadership for conscious stewarding of the life and business you love, without burning out.
Emotional resilience in life/work transition without burnout - Burnout prevention. Burnout recovery. Strengthen self-awareness, mindfulness, courage, and self-compassion skills to explore current challenges, create possibility by designing what’s next, and define how you want to inhabit your next phase. Improving your ability to adapt to changes, challenges, and stressful situations, while cultivating a braver and kinder sense of self; increasing assertiveness, confidence, and self-acceptance.
Nervous system regulation, Polyvagal-informed. - Compassionately get to know your nervous system. Learn to cultivate nervous system regulation in your daily life, informed by Polyvagal Theory, trained with Deb Dana.
Women’s issues, including women in STEM-related fields - 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. Working with women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-related fields facing personal or professional challenges.
Cultivating healthy relationships with self and others. - Increasing self-compassion, confidence and assertiveness, trust in relationships, and improving relational dynamics with others
College, graduate, and medical student mental health. - Navigating transitions and pressures in balancing workload, high demands, school and personal life, and career exploration.
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
For virtual individual therapy, currently accepting clients. For virtual group therapy, currently accepting participants with new cohorts starting during Spring 2024.
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