About Michael
Michael Fentress is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) and licensed professional counselor (LPC) with ten years of experience. He practices in Florida and offers a calm, affirming presence for people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, and other stressful life changes. He aims to make therapy feel straightforward and practical for those who are worried or overwhelmed.
He uses plain conversation to help people name what matters to them and set small, realistic goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skills you can use between meetings, like managing stress, coping with grief, or reducing avoidance. He draws from well-known therapy approaches to tailor work to each person’s needs. Michael pays attention to attachment and relationship patterns that shape how people relate to others and themselves.
He also helps clients facing identity concerns, intimacy-related questions, and the fallout from past trauma. The aim is to increase self-understanding and restore a sense of control over daily life. In sessions he balances active problem-solving with listening.
That means sometimes trying new behavioral steps and sometimes making space to process strong emotions. He supports people who want practical coping strategies and those who want to make deeper changes. Michael offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging sessions.
He works in English and practices from a perspective that values each person’s background and goals. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
How his approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values despite anxiety or fear. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns through practical exercises and homework tasks, which can reduce symptoms like worry and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michael will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best. That means discussing goals, trying techniques, and adjusting the plan based on what helps most over time.
Online sessions offer flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let you use visual cues and a fuller interaction, while phone work can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is an issue. Live chat and text make brief check-ins or journaling-style conversations possible between longer sessions. These formats can make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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