Michelle is a psychotherapist and artist offering verbal and studio based psychotherapy that incorporates expressive clay exercises and other non-verbal art experiences to open a path to the psyche for healing work.   In addition to her private practice Michelle has worked as a therapist, educator, and artist-in-residence in schools, clinics, hospitals, and residential treatment settings, and as a bereavement counselor for Hospice in Ulster and Dutchess counties.  She is a Certified Social Worker and a Board Certified Art Therapist.   A lifelong student, she is currently engaged in psychoanalytic training to further deepen her psychotherapy practice.  She completed her graduate training in Art Therapy in 1987, and received her Master's Degree in Social Work in 1995.  

In 1978-79 Michelle was apprenticed in Japan with the renowned Fujiwara family of Bizen, studying traditional methods of pottery-making. She has also studied Tea Ceremony in Kyoto and New York.  Michelle maintains a clay studio with several wheels and kilns to produce her own work, to teach others, and since 1995, for Deep Clay offerings.  Her work has been exhibited locally and in New York City, and can be seen at The Front Door Gallery in New Paltz.

The Deep Clay therapy studio is located in Poughkeepsie, NY adjacent to Vassar College. The Deep Clay pottery and sculpture studio is located in Gardiner, NY, ten minutes from New Paltz, and about half an hour from Poughkeepsie, Kingston, or Newburgh.