About Michael
Michael Powers is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 41 years of clinical experience who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and other mood-related struggles. He offers steady, straightforward support for problems like panic attacks, social anxiety, addiction, and trouble sleeping. The first conversations focus on what feels most urgent and practical steps to start feeling steadier.
Michael keeps sessions direct and collaborative. He listens for patterns that fuel strong emotions and helps people try small, manageable changes.
Background and approach
He uses methods that break worries into clear parts and build new coping skills that fit daily life. His background includes long experience with trauma and post-traumatic stress, along with work on mood disorders and anger. That history informs how he approaches panic, grief, and complex reactions to loss or abuse.
He pays attention to attachment and abandonment concerns that often underlie repeated relationship problems. In sessions he mixes problem-solving with deeper work on self-worth and forgiveness. That can mean practicing different ways to speak in relationships, testing out coping tools, or looking at how past hurts shape current reactions.
The pace is set by each person’s needs. Michael offers phone, video, live chat, and text-based messaging options for ongoing care. People in Michigan will find his practice familiar in language and approach.
He speaks English and uses a flexible subscription model for scheduling and ongoing sessions.
How his approaches work online
Michael uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and acting. CBT is useful for anxiety, panic attacks, sleep problems, and low mood because it focuses on practical steps that change day-to-day reactions.He also draws on Trauma-Focused Therapy to address the effects of past abuse or frightening events. That approach looks at how traumatic memories affect current feelings and behavior and works toward reducing intense reactions and improving daily functioning.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. He will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust plans over time. The aim is to match techniques to what helps an individual feel safer and more capable.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy schedules and varied needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports short check-ins, and text-based messaging is useful for ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, family, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 41 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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