About Michael
Michael Elwan is an Accredited Social Worker (AASW) with 15 years' experience. He works with adults who feel worn down, stuck, or quietly overwhelmed. He aims to create a calm space where people can slow down and be met without judgement.
Many people who come to Michael are not in a visible crisis. They often carry anxiety, grief, relationship strain, identity questions, burnout or long-term responsibility under a composed surface.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on helping clients notice unhelpful patterns and develop steadier ways of relating to themselves and others. Michael describes his style as thoughtful and steady. He draws on emotionally focused work, acceptance-based ideas and mindfulness to help people build clarity and emotional regulation.
He combines lived experience with professional skills to meet clients where they are. His background includes experience as a carer and living through bereavement, which informs his approach to grief and compassion fatigue. Michael also brings formal professional membership and ongoing study to his practice, including AASW membership and a PhD in mental health in progress.
Sessions aim to be practical and humane. Expect time to describe what is hard, to name the patterns, and to try new ways of responding. The therapist emphasises dignity, honesty and steady support throughout the process.
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Michael frequently uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Attachment-Based Therapy in his work. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match your values; it can help with anxiety, avoidance and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and emotion regulation, which is useful for relationship strain and intimacy-related problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michael works collaboratively to decide which methods suit your goals, needs and preferences. He will check in and adapt the approach as therapy progresses so the work remains practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily rhythms.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- 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
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- 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
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- 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
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Arabic
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