Michael Portelli
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-R
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New York, NY 10003
Let's Connect (917) 791-3240
Your experience : "I feel angry or frustrated most of the time! I'm easily triggered and overreact. Why do I feel nervous, uncomfortable, shy or 'off' around people? I get invitations, but feel anxious to commit. So I cancel at the last minute! Then beat myself up for doing so! I need to speak - say something when I feel disrespected, but I don't. Then, I build resentments, grudges toward them, and blame myself for not speaking up!? But how and what to say in a way they can hear me? I really don't understand my behavior, my mind or my decisions." This vignette represents anxiety, fear and distorted thinking. Suffering.
I will mostly listen carefully and empathically. And you will mostly talk. Together, with gentleness, self-love and patience, we will make sense of your anxiety and your childhood experiences. "Aha! Eureka! Self-awareness, Insight!" The goal is to lessen your anxiety: Freedom from the past! Serenity! Peace. "I can breathe and have empathy for myself."
My latest approach is Internal Family Systems: Critical Parent, Loving Parent, Teenager, and Inner Child. Let's explore your Inner Family. Also we can look at your Attachment Style. If you change, love, embrace yourself, you will feel worthy of better treatment from others. I can help you get there. Willingness, Courage, Forgiveness, focus on your dear self.
Take the first step to help. Call or Email Michael Portelli now - (917) 791-3240
Let's Connect (917) 791-3240
Finances
Fees
- Individual Sessions $120
- Sliding scale: apply if you may be eligible
- Pay by Paypal, Venmo, Zelle
Insurance
- Aetna
- Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield
- BlueCross and BlueShield
- Carelon Behavioral Health
- Cigna and Evernorth
- Elevance
- EmblemHealth
- Group Health Incorporated (GHI)
- Health Net
- HIP | Health Plan of New York
- Humana
- Magellan
- Managed Health Network (MHN)
- Medicare
- Optum
- Oscar Health
- Oxford
- UnitedHealthcare UHC | UBH
- Wellpoint | Amerigroup
- Out of Network
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Michael Portelli
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-R
Qualifications
- Verified by Psychology Today Licensed by State of New York / R054787 Michael Portelli
- Certificate from Training Institute for Mental Health Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy / 2001
- Attended Fordham University, Graduated 1996
Feel free to ask about qualifications and training experience. Email or (917) 791-3240
Michael Portelli
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-R
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- Men's Issues
- Codependency
- Life Transitions
Expertise
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Bipolar Disorder
- Career Counseling
- Coping Skills
- Depression
- Emotional Disturbance
- Family Conflict
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Mood Disorders
- Peer Relationships
- Personality Disorders
- Relationship Issues
- Self Esteem
- Sports Performance
- Stress
- Thinking Disorders
- Trauma and PTSD
Do these issues align with your needs? Email or (917) 791-3240
Michael Portelli
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-R
Client Focus
Age
Adults
Participants
Individuals
Age
Adults
Participants
Individuals
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)
- Attachment-based
- Compassion Focused
- Emotionally Focused
- Family Systems
- Humanistic
- Interpersonal
- Jungian
- Men in ACA and Dysfunctional Families 12 step prog
- Positive Psychology
- Psychoanalytic
- Psychodynamic
- Relational
- Strength-Based
Ask about what different forms of therapy will be like. Email or (917) 791-3240
Michael Portelli
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-R
Location
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Michael Portelli
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-R