About Michael
Michael Hutchinson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida. He uses a practical, person-centered approach that meets people where they are. He combines hands-on techniques with emphasis on individual values and goals.
Hutch draws on six years of post-licensure experience and time in the field since 2012. He has worked in inpatient, outpatient, and community settings. That background informs how he helps people manage stress, anxiety, and phobias among other concerns.
Background and approach
His sessions focus on clear skills and steady, collaborative exploration. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and replace them with workable alternatives. Client-Centered ideas shape how sessions respect each person's hopes and decisions.
Hutch also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools when they fit a person’s needs. He pays attention to trauma, relationships, self-esteem, and long-term mood concerns like bipolar disorder. He works with issues such as panic attacks, obsessions and compulsions, grief, and addictions.
People can expect a practical conversation about values and choices rather than advice. Sessions aim to build coping skills, improve day-to-day functioning, and create steps that line up with the client’s values. Language offered is English and services are provided from Florida.
How approach and access come together online
Michael Hutchinson uses methods that focus on values, present-moment skills, and practical change. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts without getting stuck and choose actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, avoidance, and stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behavior with concrete exercises to reduce panic, obsessive thinking, and low mood. Client-Centered Therapy centers sessions on the person’s perspective and choices, creating space for people to lead the work while the therapist listens and reflects.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Hutch will work with each person to decide which methods fit best based on their goals, needs, and preferences. That decision is collaborative and can change over time as goals shift or new challenges emerge.
Online formats make regular care easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls allow a fuller face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing written work between sessions. These options provide flexibility for different schedules, quicker ways to touch base, and varied ways to practice skills outside of sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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