About Michael
Michael Ziegler is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Missouri with 12 years of experience. He focuses on common struggles like stress and anxiety and on problems that make daily life feel harder. Michael aims to help people find clearer ways to think and act so they can move forward from what holds them back.
He uses straightforward, practical methods in session. That means talking through what matters most, identifying patterns that limit you, and trying small changes that can make a difference.
Background and approach
Michael draws on cognitive and behavioral tools plus mindfulness to help manage mood and stress. For people coping with trauma, he often uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, known as EMDR, to address painful memories that continue to cause trouble. He also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach skills for emotion regulation and better decision-making.
These approaches are mixed to fit each person's needs rather than applied the same way for everyone. Michael has worked with people connected to law enforcement, first responders, and those adjusting after incarceration, along with people facing parenting, relationship, grief, or addiction-related challenges. His experience includes work that focused on child-related family issues and trauma processing.
He welcomes a collaborative effort to figure out goals and next steps. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits the person seeking help.
How clinical approaches translate to online care
Michael commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes that reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. CBT sessions focus on practical exercises and short homework tasks that fit well into online formats.He also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, for people who need to process traumatic memories that still cause distress. EMDR in an online setting involves guided recall and focused attention exercises adapted for video or phone sessions.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, symptoms, and preferences, then suggest which methods to try first. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most and what feels manageable.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep practicing skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Maine
- Languages
- English
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