About Michael
Michael Flatley is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in Florida with 24 years of experience. He focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress and anxiety, relationship and family strains, and parenting challenges. He emphasizes listening first and working with each person’s strengths to move forward.
He approaches sessions as a collaborative process. He treats the person in the room as the expert on their life and helps them build practical skills.
Background and approach
Conversations often cover ways to reduce worry, improve communication, and set manageable goals for change. Michael uses a mix of straightforward, evidence-informed methods. He draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
He also uses client-centered and mindfulness approaches to help people feel heard and learn techniques to calm and focus themselves. Sessions are shaped around what each person needs. Some people want short-term solutions for a specific problem.
Others work on deeper patterns over time. Michael adapts pacing and tools to match a client’s goals and preferences. He also supports people facing grief, trauma and abuse, self-esteem struggles, and issues around intimacy and sexual identity.
He has experience with caregiver stress, blended family concerns, and age-related challenges. Michael aims for clear, practical steps so progress feels real and doable.
Approaches and practical online support
Michael often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which can be useful for anxiety, sleep, and mood concerns. He also uses Client-Centered Therapy to provide a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people can talk things through and identify their own solutions. Mindfulness Therapy is another tool he brings in to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and improve focus.Working out the best approach is part of the therapy process. He collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, pace, and comfort level. If a method isn't fitting, he adjusts the plan and tries another tact together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper conversations and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth or visual focus is limited. Live chat and messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter exchanges during busy days. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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