About Michael
Michael Curry is an LPC based in Louisiana who focuses on anxiety, stress, relationships, and phobias. He helps people manage depression, addiction, ADHD, grief, and self-esteem struggles. He also supports those facing parenting challenges, career stress, and intimacy-related issues.
He uses clear, practical methods in sessions. Conversations are straightforward and goal-focused. He emphasizes small steps that build confidence and better day-to-day functioning.
Michael blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral tools to address unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Background and approach
He also draws on mindfulness techniques to help people tolerate distress and stay present. For relationship concerns he incorporates elements of the Gottman Method to improve communication and reduce conflict. His background includes work in mental health rehabilitation settings and a mental health hospital.
He has also provided counseling in church contexts and brings experience from military and overseas environments. Those roles shaped his approach to cultural differences and varied life stressors. Michael frames therapy as a collaborative journey.
He listens for each person’s priorities and adapts methods to meet real-life goals. Sessions aim to restore hope, strengthen coping skills, and help people move forward one step at a time.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s needs and perspectives first. In practice that means conversations focus on what matters to the client and the therapist reflects and clarifies to help people find their own solutions. This approach helps when people need understanding and a place to sort through feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets the thoughts and habits that keep problems going. Online CBT sessions involve identifying unhelpful thinking, testing new behaviors, and practicing short exercises between meetings to reduce anxiety and phobias.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. These techniques can help with stress, sleep problems, and emotional regulation during life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. Choices are revisited as progress is made so the plan stays practical and useful.
Online formats offer flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face when a full conversation is helpful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter updates, coping prompts, or between-session coaching. Together these options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent despite busy schedules or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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