About Michael
Michael Maddock is a licensed mental health counselor who brings 15 years of experience to working with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship concerns. He holds the LMHC and LPC credentials and practices in Pennsylvania while offering services in English. Michael aims to create a calm, respectful space where people feel heard and understood.
He focuses on clear, practical steps that fit into everyday life. Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented, with the client’s priorities guiding each plan.
Background and approach
Michael combines talk therapy with techniques that help change unhelpful thinking and habits, and he pays attention to how relationships and life transitions affect wellbeing. His background includes work across multiple clinical settings and roles that keep him connected to current assessment tools and treatment ideas.
That experience informs his approach to issues such as trauma, bipolar disorder, eating concerns, and challenges with intimacy or attachment. He also supports people dealing with burnout, parenting stress, and major life changes. Michael uses a flexible, person-centered approach.
He draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Client-Centered methods, Motivational Interviewing, the Gottman Method for relationship work, and Existential ideas when questions about meaning arise. Treatment is tailored to each person’s needs and goals. Teletherapy is part of his practice, and he offers a range of online session formats to fit different schedules.
People interested in starting can expect straightforward steps to begin working together.
How Michael’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters most to the person in front of him. It helps people feel understood and guides the work by the client’s goals and pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. The Gottman Method offers structured tools for improving communication and resolving recurring relationship problems and can be used when partners want to rebuild connection.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Michael treats this as a collaboration - he and the client will discuss goals, try approaches that fit those goals, and adjust methods over time to find the best fit. That way the work stays relevant and focused on what the client wants to change.
Online therapy lets people access care in ways that match their lives. Video calls provide face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows brief check-ins or notes between sessions, and text-based messaging can support ongoing reflection. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to continue work through life transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- 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
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, Florida
- Languages
- English
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