About Michael
Michael Maddock is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) and a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 15 years of experience. He focuses on common and persistent problems like anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, and relationship struggles. Michael aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people under strain.
He keeps sessions grounded and collaborative. Michael listens first, then helps people set small, achievable goals. He uses clear tools to reduce symptoms and improve daily coping skills.
Background and approach
Michael’s background includes work across clinical settings and roles that keep him connected to assessment tools and current practices. He has experience with mood disorders, trauma, and long-term conditions, and he brings that knowledge into everyday conversations about change. He has provided telehealth services for more than five years.
His approach blends client-centered listening with evidence-informed methods. Techniques he draws on include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Existential ideas, motivational interviewing, narrative work, and relationship-focused methods. Michael adapts strategies to the person in front of him rather than following a single formula.
Sessions typically focus on what is most pressing - reducing distress, repairing communication, or building better routines. He helps people work through grief, parenting strain, body image and identity questions, and career stresses. Michael frames progress as steady steps rather than quick fixes.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a trusting relationship and listening closely to what matters to the person. It helps people feel heard and guides goal-setting that fits their life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety, depression, and phobia-related avoidance. Motivational Interviewing helps people clarify values and find their own reasons to change, which is useful for career shifts, substance concerns, or sticking with new habits.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify which methods fit their goals and preferences, and will adjust techniques over time as progress is observed. This keeps sessions responsive and tailored rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier during a busy day. Live chat and text messaging work well for short check-ins, journaling prompts, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while staying connected with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, Florida
- Languages
- English
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