Michele quiles

Michele Quiles, MHC-LP

Psychotherapist

If you’re looking for a validating yet challenging therapy space that allows you to be your authentic self but also a therapist that....

• will allow you to explore your identity fully and openly

• Will not spend most of the session asking "How does that make you feel?" (... only sometimes)

• Understands how political oppression can impact your mental health

• Can help you work through complex trauma, not think in black and white all or nothing patterns, PTSD, interpersonal issues, and help you develop better self esteem and community

• Have vented to therapists who don't value conversations and simply don't care about things like: class oppression, or how that videogame changed your life...

…then Michele might be a good fit!

About Michele

Michele (she/they) is a therapist from NYC from a bicultural background of Italian and Puerto Rican descent. Michele is a first generation college graduate and prioritizes intersectionality in the therapeutic process. 

Michele believes you have to come to therapy for many reasons. Perhaps one of them is frustration. YOU (mostly) KNOW WHAT TO DO! And yet, for some reason, you're just not doing these things. This is where Michele believes that behavioral change stems not purely from white knuckling new habits- but in genuinely having a fundamental opinion or perspective change about how you see yourself or the world. That opinion change comes from collaborative work from the therapist and client- but ultimately, it comes organically from you.

Michele primarily practices from a psychoanalytic and relational perspective. What does that mean? Michele thinks that the past does impact your present and digs deeply to find out how unresolved themes, ideas, traumas, and even past success can show up today in your present life. 

Michele believes that the way we act outside of the therapy space, will eventually make its way in the therapy room- and in that instance, honesty and clarity is used to help you change patterns in real time. When Michele feels clients are ready, she can implement some behavioral work like dialectical behavior therapy or other modalities.

Michele specializes in political oppression, anxiety disorder, racial +cultural identity and trauma, intergenerational trauma, relationships, interdependence and excessive dependence, and career stress. Michele also has extensive experience with trans individuals, queer clients, students, and adults.

Michele might be the right therapist for you if…

…you want a therapeutic relationship that offers humor, clarity, and honesty- 

…you want a therapist who doesn't flinch or feel defeated when they hear you say "I'm too self aware for therapy" Instead, they think to themselves: "Challenge Accepted"

…you desire to see yourself and your life differently and are open to looking at difficult facets of the past and present

…you’re looking for a therapist with lived experience of being "mixed" and navigates both a marginalized and represented cultural identity

…having a therapist who understands that the way society functions definitely impacts you

… you know that something needs to shift in your life

…you’re ready to do deep work, and know that therapy can be human and light at times, but that it's also hard work- even if you don't know what that looks like yet.

education + Licensure

Master of Mental Health Counseling, Baruch College, 2024

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Binghamton University, 2016 

Licensed Mental Health Counseling, #P130311, NY 

rates

$250.00 per 45-min session

$300.00 per 60-min session

Michele offers sliding scale rates on a case-by-case basis and is sometimes able to flex their rates for clients whose out-of-network benefits do not adequately cover therapy or who have extenuating life circumstances that prevent them from receiving therapy. Michele will help you figure out if your out of network benefits cover therapy.

Contact information: 

Email: Mquiles@triskapsychotherapy.com

Phone: 929-578-0402

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