About Michael
Prof. Michael Feldler is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 38 years of experience. He helps people who are struggling with anxiety, stress, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and other life disruptions.
He practices in New York and conducts sessions in English. He focuses on listening first and understanding what brought someone to therapy. Sessions are practical and conversational.
He works with what is most pressing while looking for the deeper issues that keep problems coming back.
Background and approach
His background includes long experience in clinical settings and college-based training clinics where he taught and supervised students. That work shaped his interest in clear, teachable tools alongside longer-term exploration of personal history and attachment patterns. Therapy draws on a mix of methods, including cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance work, attachment-focused perspectives, and client-centered conversation.
He uses techniques to manage difficult feelings, reduce avoidance, and build skills for daily life. Sessions may address a broad range of concerns such as depression, trauma and abuse, ADHD, coping with life changes, body image and eating concerns, chronic illness and pain, and career or parenting stresses.
His approach aims to reduce isolation and help people move toward the life they want. People who prefer a direct but respectful style may find this approach useful. He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different rhythms of life.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Options
Prof. Feldler commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in his work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and trying small changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety or insomnia. ACT helps people notice difficult feelings, clarify personal values, and take steps toward a meaningful life despite discomfort.He also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to understand how early relationships shape current patterns. That approach can help when relationship problems, trust issues, or repeated conflicts are part of the concern. Together these methods offer both skills for immediate relief and ways to address deeper patterns over time.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose approaches that fit their goals and preferences. That means checking in about what helps, adapting techniques, and pacing work so it feels manageable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful when visual cues help the conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and messaging let people send shorter updates and work between sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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