About Michaela
Michaela Carney is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with five years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, relationships, and recovery from trauma. Michaela speaks English and Portuguese and aims to make therapy feel straightforward and manageable.
She believes clients know their own stories and brings a respectful, strengths-based stance to sessions. Michaela helps people notice what already works for them and use those strengths to face hard moments.
Background and approach
Her style is supportive and goal-focused, with clear steps rather than long lectures. In sessions she may use practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help change unhelpful patterns of thinking and behavior. For people who have painful memories, she also uses trauma-focused methods that help reduce the hold those memories have on daily life.
She adapts her approach to the concerns people bring, such as anxiety, self-esteem, or relationship strain. Michaela also works with communication problems, workplace stress, and challenges around divorce or separation. She pays attention to how impulsivity, social anxiety, or issues with narcissism can affect daily functioning and relationships.
Conversations are focused on real-life steps people can try between sessions. To begin, she asks a few questions to understand what matters most and then builds a plan with clear goals. Sessions are available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How therapy methods translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person without judgment. The therapist mirrors concerns, helps people clarify values, and supports choices that feel right for them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going and offers concrete exercises to practice different responses to stress and anxiety. EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a trauma-focused method that helps reduce the intensity of painful memories through a structured set of steps during sessions.Choosing the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals and preferences, try an approach, and adjust as they learn what helps. That collaboration ensures the work stays relevant to everyday problems like anxiety, relationship strain, or coping with life changes.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, homework check-ins, or when typing feels simpler than talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and different time zones.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
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