Dr Michelle Bosco
Welcome! I am a psychologist licensed in the state of Connecticut; I have been practicing as a psychologist for nearly 20 years. I take a mind-body approach to therapy to honor each individual's unique experience and history. I help individuals identify adaptive ways to cope with depression, anxiety, and PTSD so they may live fuller, more functional lives. I incorporate a mindfulness based approach to stress and mood management. I also help individuals navigate existential concerns to provide a deeper connection to one's inner landscape.
First session
In our first session, we will review your biopsychosocial history through a thorough clinical interview, focusing in on current symptoms and their functional impact on your daily life. This will allow us to work collaboratively to develop your treatment plan, treatment goals, and estimated course/duration of treatment. Depending on your symptom presentation, I may ask you to complete self-report questionnaires to establish a baseline from which to gauge progress and challenges.
Strengths
Having worked with patients across the lifespan with various presenting difficulties, I have a keen appreciation for the necessity to address difficulties in a holistic way, to account for each person's unique experience in otherwise shared diagnostic/symptomatic space. Therapy is a challenging endeavor, and I seek to support patients to navigate difficult territory while challenging them to capitalize on the motivating aspects of change, stressors, difficulties.
Ideal clients
I enjoy working with individuals who are motivated to make adaptive changes in their lives, recognizing that readiness is a dynamic process. I enjoy working with individuals who conceptualize functioning in a holistic manner, who are willing to learn and challenge themselves. I am honored to work with individuals who are ready and willing to pursue Prolonged Exposure Therapy to treat posttraumatic stress symptoms.
Treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
The way we think affects how we feel and behave. CBT provides an avenue to identify and adjust maladaptive core beliefs.
Prolonged Exposure Therapy
PE is a potent treatment paradigm for treating post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). I am a certified PE provider and I am truly honored to be a Prolonged Exposure Therapy Consultant/Supervisor, listed in the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety at UPENN's Perelman School of Medicine, to be able to do my part to pay forward this therapeutic intervention to clinical psychology graduate students, interns, and to other clinicians.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
Mindfulness practices and therapies promote grounding from which one may manage stress and maladaptive coping reactions.
Existential
As symptoms and maladaptive beliefs shift, some individuals may benefit from delving into consideration and reflection of life transitions and concepts.
Interpersonal
Interpersonal therapy is bridged to CBT via social learning theory. We internalize how others treat us verbally, non-verbally, and even pre-verbally - this is how we learn about ourselves, others, community, and in a broader social sense. However, this process may be likened to a fun house mirror - we do not see ourselves clearly, and we may even hold a distorted, painful self view. If we can learn how we view and interact with ourselves through early development learning, we can learn NEW ways, more adaptive ways based in a much clearer mirror.
Location
Virtual sessions
In-person sessions2389 Main St, Glastonbury, CT 06033