About Michael
Prof. Michael Feldler is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 38 years of experience. He works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, trauma, and related concerns.
He aims to make sessions straightforward and focused on what matters most to each person. He centers sessions on listening first and then building practical ways to cope. That can mean learning new thinking skills, practicing emotion regulation, or examining attachment patterns that affect relationships.
Background and approach
He uses a mix of approaches like cognitive behavioral tools, acceptance strategies, and client-centered listening to match each person's needs. Michael has long experience in both clinical and teaching roles. He has supervised undergraduate and graduate students at a college-based mental health training clinic for many years.
That background informs his work with adults who want clear explanations and steady support as they learn new habits. In sessions he often helps people look beyond immediate symptoms to underlying patterns. That may involve working on communication, grief, self-esteem, sleep or eating concerns, or the stress that comes with major life changes.
He also supports people facing compassion fatigue, chronic illness, or challenges tied to identity and relationships. People meet him in New York for a mix of talk and practical skill-building. He offers several online formats for ongoing care and uses a collaborative style to plan steps that fit daily life.
Online approaches that fit daily life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns through practical exercises and homework. It’s often used for anxiety, depression, sleep, and eating concerns. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes being heard and respected while people find their own solutions; this approach supports self-esteem, grief work, and relationship challenges.Finding the right mix is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they decide which approaches to try and adjust methods as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging is useful for brief check-ins or when writing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy days while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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