About Michael
Michael Brennan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with eight years of experience helping people find more meaning and steadiness in their lives. He focuses on practical changes and emotional connection, guiding clients through anxiety, stress, grief, and life transitions. Michael writes and speaks in plain language and aims to make therapy feel like an honest conversation.
He centers the relationship as the work. Sessions tend to be grounded and conversational, with attention to what is happening in the moment.
Background and approach
He listens closely and uses co-regulation and simple body-awareness techniques when they help someone feel less overwhelmed. Many people come to him while facing loss, identity shifts, or recovery challenges. He takes experiences of hurt within psychiatric or therapy systems seriously and will not minimize those concerns.
The approach is collaborative - clients set goals and he helps map small, doable steps toward them. Michael draws from a mix of cognitive and mindfulness-informed methods plus attachment-focused ideas. That mix is used flexibly to address anxiety, depression, trauma, and problems with sleep, focus, or motivation.
He also supports people working through addiction, career questions, and changes in relationships. Appointments are intended to be attentive and unhurried. He tries to offer a full hour of presence and will discuss scheduling expectations up front.
The emphasis is on steady, practical progress rather than quick fixes.
Evidence-informed approaches for online anxiety and life changes
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them, then choose actions tied to what matters. It is useful for anxiety, avoidance, and motivation problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers practical tools to reduce anxious thinking and improve sleep and mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape how people connect and feel safe, and it can help with intimacy issues and relationship distress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Michael will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and life circumstances and then tailor methods together. That collaboration helps keep the work relevant and manageable as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video is good for face-to-face conversation, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, chat or text suits quick check-ins or shorter reflections, and all formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Many people find online work more flexible while retaining a consistent therapeutic relationship.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Nevada
- Languages
- English
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