About Michael
Michael Witham is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on practical approaches that help people manage stress and anxiety. He draws on more than two decades of clinical work to help people learn skills and make clearer decisions. Sessions are straightforward and goal-oriented with an emphasis on what clients want to change.
He began practicing in 2002 and has been licensed in Wyoming since 2012. Over 26 years he has worked in crisis response, intake and treatment planning, and both individual and group formats.
Background and approach
He has experience with impulse control, depression, addiction, grief, and coping with major life changes. Michael often uses client-centered methods combined with cognitive behavioral techniques. That means sessions focus on the client's goals and on changing thoughts and behaviors that get in the way.
He also draws from dialectical behavior strategies and mindfulness to teach emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills. In practical terms he helps people build decision-making and organizational skills. He supports people working through sleeping and eating concerns, chronic pain, and complex emotional stressors.
He also has experience addressing severe symptoms and co-occurring conditions. Therapy is collaborative and skill-based. Michael encourages steady progress and self-reliance while strengthening the abilities clients already have.
He offers sessions from Wyoming and works with clients in English, including international clients.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Michael uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy as core approaches in online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's goals and life experience, giving space for their priorities to guide sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and replaces them with more useful ways of thinking and acting, which is often helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress.He also draws on dialectical behavior therapy techniques when needed to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Those skills help when emotions feel overwhelming or when impulsive reactions cause problems. Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process; the therapist will work with each person to match methods to goals, needs, and personal preferences rather than applying a single style to every situation.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging let people check in more flexibly between sessions or use written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life while focusing on practical skills and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Wyoming
- Languages
- English
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