About Michael
Michael (Mike) Wallington is a licensed professional clinical counselor with 44 years of experience. He focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, stress, or problems with substance use. He aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can begin to sort out what is happening and take practical steps forward.
Mike believes people have inner resources that can be drawn on to regain balance. He uses approachable methods to help identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize clear skills and small changes that make daily life easier. In therapy he tends to blend client-centered care with cognitive strategies and mindfulness. That means conversations that listen first, combined with tools to notice thinking patterns and stay grounded.
People can expect both empathic listening and practical exercises they can use between sessions. He has worked with a wide range of concerns across relationships, grief, parenting struggles, and addiction-related problems. Mike also addresses issues like anger, intimacy, self-esteem, and coping with life transitions.
His long career gives him experience helping people navigate repeated setbacks and slow recovery. Work typically focuses on understanding what keeps difficult feelings active and then testing small changes. Sessions are paced to the person’s needs and goals.
Michael practices in New Mexico and offers multiple online formats for meetings.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Michael often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify and change thinking patterns that fuel anxiety and depression. CBT focuses on practical steps and exercises that can reduce worry and improve daily functioning.He also uses client-centered therapy, which centers on listening and creating an accepting, nonjudgmental space. This approach helps people feel heard and clarify what they want to change. Mindfulness therapy is used alongside these methods to teach simple attention and grounding skills that reduce distress in the moment.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust over time based on what works. People often mix approaches so sessions include both conversation and short skill-building practices.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions are useful when internet bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat or text messaging can be convenient for brief updates, reminders, or when a written check-in fits a schedule. These options make it easier to fit counseling into work, travel, or caregiving routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 44 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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