uniquely tailor your treatment to your specific needs and current place in life, so you can feel empowered to make meaningful and sustained change in your life.
uniquely tailor your treatment to your specific needs and current place in life, so you can feel empowered to make meaningful and sustained change in your life.
Michael utilizes an integrative approach to counseling based in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and informed by Multicultural and Feminist Therapy, Person Centered Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and DBT.
Collaborate as a team to build realistic and obtainable goals to work towards. We will approach your present circumstances by not only evaluating your past & how it contributes to your daily life today, but also deal with the issue in the here & now.
Collaborate as a team to build realistic and obtainable goals to work towards. We will approach your present circumstances by not only evaluating your past & how it contributes to your daily life today, but also deal with the issue in the here & now.
I aim to help alleviate symptoms that affect clients’ mental health and help them get to a comfortable, healthy place in their lives. My main approaches to counseling are Person-Centered, Psychodynamic, CBT, mindfulness, and strengths-based.
Together, we will find the issue/block that is troubling you as a whole person. We view wellbeing as a combination of the heart, mind and body.
Together, we will find the issue/block that is troubling you as a whole person. We view wellbeing as a combination of the heart, mind and body.
I ask the question: what disrupts your connection with yourself and the world around you? Whether the cause for the disconnect be traumatic events, bouts of depression. persistent anxiety or the inability to cope.
Work to identify strategies and techniques that can begin to offer some relief. We will also begin to alter problematic/less functional narratives that negatively impact your life. Self-compassion is a skill that I work on with almost every client.
Work to identify strategies and techniques that can begin to offer some relief. We will also begin to alter problematic/less functional narratives that negatively impact your life. Self-compassion is a skill that I work on with almost every client.
It is my responsibility to pay attention to the big picture- noting common themes that come up. Often concerns that we have present differently across different domains (work, home, etc.) but the emotional underpinnings and impact can be similar.
Together, we will gain clarity, insight and more understanding through vast perspectives.
Together, we will gain clarity, insight and more understanding through vast perspectives.
My techniques in CBT and Person Centered Approach offers support in the difficult stages of life as you navigate.