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Michael Zone, LCSW, JD, MEd

High-Performance Behavioral Consulting, Counseling and Coaching

Practice Description

You are a practicing attorney who operates in high-stress, demanding environments. Your training requires you to analyze risks, anticipate errors, and maintain a high level of control. While these skills make you effective at your work, you are currently facing situations where this analytical approach creates significant challenges. This can show up as delaying specific professional or personal tasks, hiding severe exhaustion, struggling to physically rest at night, or dealing with the constant feeling that you are a fraud who is about to be found out, despite your success. These difficulties frequently carry over into your personal life, impacting your health, your relationships, and your ability to be fully present with your family. Because you are used to being the person who handles problems for everyone else, managing these pressures on your own can feel isolating. You are not looking for a passive space to over-analyze your life or debate your stress. You are seeking a practical strategy to take consistent action and maintain absolute agency over your choices, your practice, and your relationships.

I do not treat therapy as a passive lecture or a space to debate your thoughts. We do not wait for your anxiety to decrease, your mood to change, or motivation to appear before taking action. Instead, we look directly at the objective facts of your current situation, identify the specific real-world costs of avoidance, and agree on small, concrete steps you can execute immediately. The focus of our work is not on changing your internal emotions. The focus is entirely on behavioral execution—ensuring that you perform the tasks required to manage your career and your personal life, regardless of what your mind or feelings are telling you in that moment. Areas of Focus include: High-Pressure Burnout and Chronic Fatigue. Perfectionism, Procrastination, and Task Avoidance. Feeling Like a Fraud (Imposter Syndrome). Letting Your Career Consume Your Whole Identity. Difficulty Transitioning from Work to Personal/Family Life.

Seeking support when you are the anchor for your family and your clients requires real courage. You do not have to wait until the pressure disappears or your thoughts go completely quiet to take control of your daily life. If you are ready to stop waiting to feel ready and want to start practicing direct behavioral agency today, I encourage you to connect with me. Let's do the work together.

Phone

  • Contact Phone Number: 516-410-8241

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Primary Location

                                           
  • Practice Name: Michael Zone, LCSW, JD
  • Street Address: 534 E 83RD ST.
  • Address Line 2: APT A
  • City: New York
  • State: NY
  • Zip Code: 10028

Availability

  • How do you conduct therapy? : Both in person and online
  • Are you accepting new clients? : Yes

Finances

Fees

  • Individual Sessions $175

Sliding Scale

  • Scale Yes

Payment Options

  • Paypal
  • Venmo
  • Zelle

Insurance

  • Insurance Accepted Aetna, Cigna, Optum, UniterHealthcare, Oscar

NPI and Professional Insurance (if applicable)

  • NPI Number: 1568083624
  • Malpractice Carrier: American Professional Agency
  • Expiration Date (MM/YY): 05/27

Credentials

Primary Credential
  • License Status: I am licensed, my license information is below
  • Mental health role: Clinical Social Work Therapist
  • License State: NY
  • License Expiration: May
  • License Number: 053624
  • Expiration Date(MM/YY) : 2029

Education and Years in Practice

  • School Most Recently Graduated: Adelphi University
  • Degree/Diploma : MSW
  • Year Graduated: 1996
  • Years in Practice: 21

Additional Credentials (Add up to 2 additional)

  • Credential Type: Degree/Diploma
  • Accrediting Institution : Hofstra University
  • Degree/Diploma: J.D.
  • Year Graduated : 1999
  • Credential Type: Degree/Diploma
  • Accrediting Institution : Long Island University
  • Degree/Diploma: MS in Counseling
  • Year Graduated : 1993

Specialties

Top Specialties
  • ADHD
  • Anxiety
  • Coping Skills
  • Depression
  • Emotional Disturbance
  • Life Coaching
  • Life Transitions
  • Men's Issues
  • Relationship Issues
  • Stress

Client Focus

Participants
  • Individuals
Ages
  • Adults
  • Elders
Types of Therapy
  • Coaching
  • CBT
  • Eclectic
  • Humanistic
  • Integrative
  • Positive Psychology
  • Reality Therapy
  • Solution Focused Brief
  • Strength-Based

Note on Therapy Types

What types of therapy do you employ?

My approach is a behavior-first framework engineered to systematically decouple physical execution from internal emotional states. It operates on a single, non-negotiable axiom: Internal emotional weather possesses exactly zero physical mass to stop a human being’s muscles from moving. Rather than wasting critical billing hours trying to eliminate anxiety, minimize stress, or wait for optimal motivation, clients are trained to treat emotional and physiological distress as background weather while maintaining absolute sovereignty over their motor track and professional deadlines.

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