About Michael
Dr. Michael Bryan is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) and Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 25 years in counseling. He holds a doctorate of education in counseling psychology and brings long experience to common life struggles.
He describes a warm, interactive, and faith-informed style that centers respect and compassion. He helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and challenges tied to career or parenting. He also supports those coping with addiction, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy concerns, and ADHD.
Background and approach
His work includes additional focus on adoption and foster care issues and men’s concerns such as fatherhood and midlife transitions. Dr. Bryan draws on practical cognitive-behavioral strategies and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice patterns and take small, workable steps.
He also uses client-centered and solution-focused methods to shape conversations around immediate goals. Sessions often combine short-term problem solving with attention to values and daily habits. People who like a conversational approach and clear, actionable steps tend to do well with his style.
He integrates personal beliefs into therapy when clients want that perspective and keeps the focus on each person’s goals. Dr. Bryan works from Arizona and conducts sessions in English.
For many people the first sessions focus on clarifying what matters most, setting realistic next steps, and choosing tools to try between meetings. He aims to make therapy understandable and practical so progress can fit into busy lives.
Evidence-informed approaches and flexible online care
Dr. Bryan uses a mix of cognitive-behavioral work and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people change unhelpful habits and connect actions to what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thought and behavior patterns and testing new ways of responding to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people accept difficult thoughts and feelings while taking steps toward valued life directions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dr. Bryan treats approach selection as a collaborative process, matching methods to a person’s goals, preferences, and daily demands. He often blends practical problem solving with values-focused exercises so therapy fits real life rather than remaining abstract.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people work face-to-face from different locations, phone sessions can be better when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching or short questions between meetings. These options aim to make care more flexible and easier to fit into busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, Nevada
- Languages
- English
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