About Michael
Michael Letendre is a licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience working in Massachusetts. He helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, and relationship or intimacy concerns. He aims to make the first steps toward change feel less overwhelming for someone seeking a better day-to-day life.
Michael creates a straightforward and nonjudgmental space for people to talk through what matters most to them. He listens for the patterns that increase distress and works with each person to set clear, manageable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps as well as understanding how past experiences shape current feelings. Michael has supported people through grief, addiction concerns, and family-related stress, and he also has experience with phobias, obsessive-compulsive concerns, and multicultural issues. He brings a calm, steady approach and draws on a variety of evidence-based therapeutic techniques.
The emphasis is on finding what helps in real life, not on labels. When it feels hard to reach out, he acknowledges that courage it takes and stays focused on small, doable changes. He respects each person's pace and priorities while offering direct observations and tools that can ease symptoms.
People can expect a collaborative tone and clear suggestions for practice between sessions. Sessions are offered in English and Michael accepts international clients. He works with video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose the format that fits their routine and needs.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Michael uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, practical work. One common approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and testing new responses in everyday situations to reduce anxiety and phobic avoidance. This kind of work helps people take small, safe steps toward situations they have been avoiding.Another approach centers on processing traumatic experiences at a manageable pace while building skills to reduce distress. That method helps people lower symptoms of trauma and improve day-to-day coping by combining grounding strategies with structured processing when the person is ready.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Michael will talk through goals, preferences, and past experiences to choose techniques that fit each person's needs. He adapts methods over time based on what is helping and what feels workable in daily life.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversational work and real-time skill practice. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow for frequent brief support and coaching between longer sessions. These formats offer flexibility so people can fit therapy into their schedules and use the method that helps them engage consistently.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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