About Michael
Michael Maroney is an ACA counsellor with ten years' experience helping people work through stress, anxiety and relationship concerns. He offers a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can talk about what matters to them. He listens first and helps people use their own strengths to make changes.
Michael uses straightforward, practical approaches in sessions. He draws on client-centred work to create a respectful, person-focused atmosphere. He also uses cognitive behavioural ideas to notice unhelpful thinking and build different habits.
Background and approach
When relationship patterns are a concern he may bring in principles from the Gottman Method to help with communication and rebuilding connection. He supports people facing grief, life transitions, career decisions and issues around self-esteem and motivation. He also works with addiction-related concerns and matters linked to gender and sexual identity.
Sessions are conversational and focused on small, doable steps. Michael helps clients set clear, realistic goals and checks progress along the way. He encourages practical tools people can try between sessions to manage stress and anxiety.
Michael practices in Australia and offers a collaborative style. He aims to help people find clarity, regain control over daily life, and take steps towards more authentic living.
Therapeutic approaches and online counselling options
Michael combines client-centred listening with cognitive behavioural techniques to help clients facing anxiety, stress and relationship difficulties. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on understanding your experience and supporting your own choices, while Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and build different habits to reduce distress.He also uses ideas from the Gottman Method to address communication patterns and strengthen relationship skills when that is a focus. Each approach is explained in clear terms and chosen to match the client’s specific concerns and goals rather than applied as a one-size-fits-all solution.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative step. The therapist will discuss options with the client, consider their goals and preferences, and agree together on the methods to try. Adjustments are made over time based on what is working and what isn’t.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face without travel, phone sessions can fit a shorter break in the day, and text-based messaging or live chat suit quick check-ins or when typing feels easier. These formats make it simpler to fit regular sessions into busy lives while still focusing on making steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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