Michelle Batista, MHC-LP
Bilingual Therapist
Bilingual therapy in English and Spanish for anxiety, overwhelm, emotional dysregulation, self-doubt, and life stress.
Languages: English, Spanish
Currently accepting new clients
View Michelle’s profileOnline Therapists in Queens for Adults and Couples
Therapy should not require you to flatten your culture, family history, language, identity, or relationships into a simpler story. The context around what you feel often matters as much as the symptom itself.
Peace Love Wellness offers culturally responsive, relational online therapy for adults and couples throughout Queens, including Astoria, Jackson Heights, Flushing, Jamaica, Sunnyside, Forest Hills, and the rest of the borough. English and Spanish options are available, subject to clinician fit and availability. All sessions are virtual; we do not have a Queens office.
Peace Love Wellness connects Queens adults and couples with online therapists for individual and relationship therapy. English and Spanish options are available subject to clinician fit, schedule, insurance participation, and current openings. Insurance, private-pay, and reduced-fee options are available. Care can address anxiety, family expectations, cultural or bicultural identity, burnout, grief, life transitions, trauma, and relationship patterns.
- Format
- 100% online
- Who we work with
- Adults (18+) and couples
- Location requirement
- You must be in New York during sessions
- Languages
- English and Spanish options; availability varies
- Cost options
- Insurance, private pay, and reduced-fee care
Care that understands context, not only symptoms
Anxiety, guilt, conflict, or self-doubt rarely exists in isolation. It may be shaped by migration, race, language, faith, family roles, financial pressure, sexuality, gender, disability, or the experience of belonging to more than one world. These parts of your life do not need to be treated as side notes in therapy.
Culturally responsive therapy is not a promise that a therapist will automatically understand every experience you have had. It is a commitment to curiosity, humility, and care that considers the systems and relationships around you. Our matching process also gives you space to name language, identity, and lived-experience preferences that matter.
Therapy may help you work with:
- anxiety, panic, overthinking, or emotional overwhelm
- family expectations, guilt, boundaries, or the pressure to hold everything together
- bicultural identity, first-generation experiences, or questions of belonging
- grief, migration, a move, a career shift, or another life transition
- depression, burnout, self-esteem, or the feeling that your needs come last
- communication strain, trust concerns, or recurring patterns with a partner
Individual therapy that makes room for language, family, and identity
Individual therapy can help you understand how family roles, cultural expectations, protective strategies, and past experiences shape what is happening now. You decide which parts of your identity and story belong in the work. If you prefer therapy in Spanish, include that in your intake form; bilingual availability depends on clinician fit, schedule, and insurance.
Explore bilingual and bicultural therapyRelationship therapy across cultures and family systems
Partners may enter a relationship with different expectations about communication, privacy, money, family responsibility, gender, affection, or conflict. Therapy provides a non-blaming space to understand those differences and the cycle that forms around them. We offer affirming care for LGBTQIA+ couples and ethically non-monogamous relationships as well as monogamous partners.
Explore couples and relationship therapyTherapists who may fit your language and care preferences
Michelle offers therapy in English and Spanish, and Michelle and Zaire both work with concerns connected to anxiety, identity, family context, self-worth, and life transitions. Current openings, insurance, and clinical fit determine the available match.
Zaire Smalls, MHC-LP
Culturally Responsive Therapist
Culturally responsive support for anxiety, ADHD, depression, trauma, identity, and major life transitions.
Languages: English
Currently accepting new clients
View Zaire’s profileInsurance & fees
Peace Love Wellness participates with networks including Aetna, Anthem / Empire BlueCross BlueShield, Carelon, Cigna, EmblemHealth, MagnaCare, Meritain, NYSHIP / The Empire Plan, Optum, and United HealthCare. A plan name alone does not guarantee coverage with every therapist. We review the specific plan, clinician participation, and expected cost before the first session.
Peace Love Wellness participates with several insurance networks in New York. Coverage and cost-sharing depend on your plan and clinician, so we review your information before you begin. Private-pay and reduced-fee options are also available; reduced-fee care is offered primarily through supervised clinicians.
Insurance & FeesCareful therapist matching
Tell us if language, culture, race, gender, sexuality, neurotype, disability, faith, relationship structure, or another lived experience matters to the therapeutic fit. We cannot guarantee a clinician who shares every identity or experience, but we will take your preferences seriously and explain what is currently available.
After you submit the intake form, we review your concerns, preferences, schedule, insurance, and current clinician availability. Inquiries receive a response within two business days, and most new clients have a first session within one to two weeks.
Start the intake formRelated therapy services
Therapy in Spanish
Online therapy in Spanish for adults who want to express themselves in the language that feels most natural.
Therapy in SpanishFirst-generation therapy
Support for family roles, guilt, achievement pressure, belonging, and the experience of moving between worlds.
First-generation therapyCulturally responsive therapy
Care that considers culture, systems, identity, family, and lived experience as part of the clinical picture.
Culturally responsive therapyOnline therapy in Queens — FAQ
Questions Queens adults and couples often have about language, location, insurance, and online care.
Can I have therapy in Spanish?
Yes. Peace Love Wellness has a bilingual clinician who offers therapy in English and Spanish. Spanish-language availability depends on schedule, clinical fit, and insurance participation, so select your language preference on the intake form.
Is bilingual therapy the same as culturally responsive therapy?
Not necessarily. Bilingual therapy means sessions can take place in more than one language. Culturally responsive therapy also pays attention to culture, identity, systems, family, and lived experience. A shared language or identity can matter, but it does not replace clinical fit.
Can I use NYSHIP, EmblemHealth, or another insurance plan?
The practice participates with NYSHIP / The Empire Plan, EmblemHealth, and several other networks. Coverage varies by plan and clinician, and some clinicians cannot bill every network. We review your information before the first session and explain the available options.
Do you work with children or teenagers in Queens?
No. Peace Love Wellness works with adults age 18 and older and with couples or partners. The practice does not provide child or adolescent therapy.
Can I attend from anywhere in Queens?
Yes. You can join from any Queens neighborhood if you are physically in New York and have a private, stationary space with a reliable internet connection. Peace Love Wellness does not have an in-person office in Queens.
Clinically reviewed by Cameron Eshgh, LMHC-D on July 31, 2026.
Find therapy that makes room for your full context
Tell us what you want help with, your language and therapist preferences, your insurance, and your schedule. We will explain the strongest available options.
Online therapy across New York City
Peace Love Wellness serves adults and couples in all five boroughs through secure online therapy. Explore the pages for other parts of the city, or the statewide overview.