About Mikel
Mikel Wallschlaeger is an Ohio licensed professional clinical counselor with 13 years of experience. He focuses on helping adults navigate stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. His work emphasizes steady, respectful care and practical steps toward feeling better.
He aims to make sessions feel warm and kind. People who’ve worked with him describe sessions as understanding, flexible, and compassionate. Mikel draws on his own positive experience with counseling to guide people toward peace and greater well-being.
Background and approach
Mikel sees adults across the lifespan, including young adults, middle-aged adults, and older adults. He has experience supporting people from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, and he has worked with people facing chronic illness and end-of-life concerns. In sessions he focuses on concrete goals.
He helps people manage panic, social anxiety, anger, sleep problems, and bipolar symptoms. He also works with career decisions, workplace stress, caregiver strain, and issues around loneliness and life purpose. Mikel offers practical skill building for coping and communication.
He can help with rebuilding self-esteem, managing strong emotions, and planning life changes. When a spiritual perspective is helpful to a client, he can incorporate Christian scripture sensitively and only with the client’s preference.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Briefly, Mikel uses well-supported techniques that focus on skills and practical change. One approach emphasizes identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood. This helps with panic attacks, social anxiety, and general worry by teaching tools you can use between sessions. Another approach centers on problem-solving and coping skills for stress, workplace issues, and caregiver strain. It teaches step-by-step ways to manage overwhelming tasks and improve daily functioning.Choosing the right method is a team effort. He works together with each person to figure out what fits their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying approaches, tracking what helps, and adjusting the plan so it stays useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet when schedules are tight. Video calls let people use in-session exercises and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for shorter check-ins, quick coping reminders, or when you want to reflect in writing. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and other daily demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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