About Michael
Michael Barrett is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Michigan with 15 years of experience. He offers evening online sessions while working daytime hours in a metropolitan community health setting. He focuses on anxiety and related concerns and aims to make the first step of reaching out feel manageable.
He approaches therapy believing each person knows their story best. Sessions are collaborative and respectful, with a focus on building from a person’s existing strengths.
Background and approach
He helps people name what feels overwhelming and breaks problems into smaller, workable steps. Michael uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral methods to identify unhelpful thinking and change patterns that keep stress and worry active. He also draws on client-centered ideas to keep conversations focused on the client’s goals and experience.
Mindfulness techniques are offered to teach simple ways to calm the mind and regulate strong feelings when they come up. These skills are presented in short, gradual practices clients can try between sessions. Clients often bring issues such as stress, addictions, grief, anger, or depression.
Additional areas of focus include dependent personality concerns, drug and alcohol addiction, impulsivity, forgiveness work, men's issues, post-traumatic stress, and social anxiety and phobia. Michael aims to make sessions clear and practical so clients can use what they learn in daily life.
Practical approaches for online anxiety care
Client-centered work puts the client's experience first and helps shape sessions around what matters most to the person. This approach emphasizes listening, reflection, and following the client's pace so conversations stay relevant to daily life and real concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) involves spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral steps. It helps with anxiety, stress, and patterns tied to depression or addictive behavior by teaching clear techniques to change thinking and reactions.
Mindfulness Therapy offers brief practices to ground attention and reduce reactivity to strong emotions. These simple exercises can be used between sessions to manage worry, anger, and cravings in the moment.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and daily routine. That collaborative process helps tailor tools so they are practical and usable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation for practice and feedback, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Anger management
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Men's issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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