About Michael
Michael Denning is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida who focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, addiction, and self-esteem. He has seven years of experience helping people who feel stuck by life changes, low motivation, or confidence challenges. He names ADHD among the areas he works with and brings a straightforward, respectful stance to sessions.
He starts by listening and learning each person’s story. He treats clients as the expert on their life and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and down-to-earth, with steps clients can try between meetings. Michael uses clear techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify thoughts and behaviors that get in the way. He also practices client-centered methods that focus on the person’s goals.
Mindfulness skills are introduced when helpful to manage intense feelings or moment-to-moment distraction. He often uses short-term, solution-focused strategies to set small, achievable goals. Motivational interviewing helps when someone is unsure or feels stuck about making changes.
These approaches are mixed to fit what each person needs. Over seven years he has worked with concerns that include grief, trauma and abuse, sleep problems, anger, relationship and intimacy issues, and mood disorders such as depression and bipolar. He also supports people facing career stress, compassion fatigue, and substance use challenges.
Michael aims to make therapy practical and usable. He helps people find concrete steps forward, adjust goals as needed, and develop tools they can use day to day.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person’s lead. It helps when someone wants a respectful space to make sense of their feelings and set personal goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try approaches that match those goals, and adjust methods based on what helps most. This is a collaborative process where the client’s preferences guide the plan.
Online sessions can be held by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. 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 make it possible to touch base more frequently or fit brief sessions into a busy day. These options increase flexibility and make it simpler to keep therapy consistent with work, family, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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