About Michael
Prof. Michael McGaugh helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and relationship or intimacy concerns. He also supports those facing addiction, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, career shifts, and life changes.
Michael is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 22 years in mental health work. He spent years as an adult case manager and an intake specialist before focusing on counseling. That background shaped a practical, down-to-earth style.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to help clients spot patterns, try new responses, and make choices that feel healthier. Michael uses straightforward talk and collaborative problem solving. He draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
He also uses client-centered listening to follow what matters most to each person. Mindfulness tools and emotionally-focused techniques are part of his work when people want ways to calm intense feelings or improve close relationships. He helps people build skills they can use between sessions.
People often come with practical goals like managing panic attacks, coping with grief, reducing compulsive behaviors, or navigating separation and infidelity. Michael aims to make steps feel manageable, with clear strategies and regular check-ins. He practices in Missouri and offers services in English.
International clients are accepted. His approach is collaborative and intended to fit the person’s needs and circumstances.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so clients feel heard and can steer the work. That approach helps people clarify goals and decide what matters most in their life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors together and teaches concrete strategies to reduce anxiety, panic, compulsions, or unhelpful thinking patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work with each person to test what helps best for their needs, goals, and preferences. That might mean starting with CBT exercises for immediate symptom relief, using client-centered conversation to deepen insight, or mixing in mindfulness practice as needed.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face work when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send quick updates, practice skills between sessions, or connect when typing feels easier than speaking.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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