About Michael
Michael Morris is a licensed marriage and family therapist who works with adults in California. He focuses on practical changes clients can use day to day. He talks plainly and aims to make sessions feel direct and hopeful.
He brings five years of professional experience to common concerns like relationship struggles, self-esteem, and parenting stress. He also supports people navigating LGBT topics, sexual concerns, and focus challenges often described as ADHD.
Background and approach
Sessions center on clear goals and small steps clients can try between meetings. Michael encourages clients to use their own strengths when facing hard moments. He treats the person, not just a list of problems, and invites clients to shape the work.
He often helps people sort priorities, practice better communication, and reduce shame or guilt that gets in the way of progress. When sexual issues or intimacy come up, he approaches them with direct, nonjudgmental conversation and practical exercises. For people with focus-related difficulties he looks at everyday routines, impulsivity, and simple strategies to improve consistency.
He also addresses anxiety and panic by breaking down triggers and testing doable coping skills. Clients can expect a collaborative tone and clear assignments between sessions when helpful. Michael describes therapy as a team effort where the client’s experience guides each step.
His goal is to help people build habits that support clearer thinking and stronger relationships.
How evidence-based techniques work online
Brief descriptions of common, evidence-based techniques give a sense of what happens in sessions. Behavioral strategies focus on small, practical changes in daily routines to improve focus, reduce impulsivity, and build habits. These techniques help with ADHD-related struggles by breaking tasks into manageable steps and testing new routines.Cognitive approaches look at unhelpful thinking patterns that fuel anxiety, low self-esteem, or relationship conflicts. They involve noticing automatic thoughts, trying different perspectives, and practicing new responses to build confidence and reduce panic symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals and lifestyle, and will adjust plans as progress is made. Clients help set priorities and choose which strategies to try first.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different needs and schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper exchanges. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support short updates, homework discussion, or steady contact between sessions. Together these formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent and fit it into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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