About Michael
Michael Henderson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 16 years as an LCSW and a long career in behavioral health. He offers calm, straightforward support for people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, and relationship strain. He has worked in inpatient hospital settings, community behavioral health centers, and outpatient therapy.
That range taught him practical ways to help people handle crises, manage symptoms, and connect with useful community resources.
Background and approach
In sessions he listens first to learn a person's history and current concerns. He then works with each person to set clear goals and to identify barriers that stand in the way of those goals. He uses hands-on strategies to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and to build coping skills for daily life.
Michael draws from evidence-based therapeutic techniques and a variety of tools he has gathered over years on the front lines of care. His work is trauma-informed and affirming of LGBTQIA people. He meets people where they are and adjusts his approach as trust and clarity grow.
Communication starts gently and becomes more direct as a plan takes shape. The therapist sees the person as the driver of their own change and focuses on practical steps to move toward better functioning, more satisfying relationships, and greater emotional balance.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Michael draws on well-established therapeutic techniques to guide online work. Cognitive behavioral methods focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. Mindfulness-based skills teach simple attention and breathing practices that help manage stress and increase emotional awareness.Finding the right approach is part of the process. He collaborates with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals, life circumstances, and preferences, and he adjusts plans as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video allows visual connection and structured sessions. Phone can be a good option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to keep shorter check-ins, share notes, or have ongoing support between longer sessions. These formats make therapy easier to fit around work, caregiving, and other daily demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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