About Michael
Michael Fentress is a licensed mental health counselor who brings ten years of clinical work to his practice in Florida. He holds LMHC and LPC credentials and focuses on helping people manage depression, addiction, anxiety, grief, and ADHD among other struggles. He aims to create an affirming, respectful space where people can speak honestly about what they are facing.
Michael keeps sessions straightforward and practical. He listens first, then helps people set clear goals and small steps they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
He uses gentle challenge and real-world strategies so clients can test new ways of coping in day-to-day life. His approach blends several methods, including acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-based thinking, and client-centered care. That mix supports work on relationships, emotional awareness, and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Sessions often include goal setting, skill practice, and reflection on how past experiences shape present choices. People who reach out might be dealing with life transitions, addiction, work stress, identity questions, or complicated grief. Michael also addresses concerns like intimacy, anger, caregiver strain, and career decisions.
He aims to help each person discover practical steps toward more balance and meaning. Therapy is offered in formats that fit varied schedules, and Michael will work with clients to find a rhythm that suits their needs. He draws on a decade of experience to offer steady support while people try new approaches and make changes.
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then committing to actions that match personal values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and getting unstuck during life changes.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and emotional responses. It can be useful for people who want to improve closeness, trust, and emotional connection in relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michael will talk with each person about goals, past efforts, and what feels most useful, then together decide which methods to try. That collaborative planning helps tailor sessions to a person’s needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for a traditional session feel and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat provides short check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week and to keep consistent momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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