About Michael
Michael Ziegler is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on helping people facing confusing or painful emotions. He speaks plainly and works to make therapy feel approachable for someone taking the first step. If worries about anxiety, trauma, parenting stress, or mood problems are making life harder, he aims to help you find clearer ways forward.
He uses practical methods to address day-to-day difficulties and long-standing patterns. Sessions center on identifying what you want, noticing what you do now, and trying small changes that lead to different results.
Background and approach
Michael draws from approaches that target thoughts, behaviors, and traumatic memories so clients can slowly reduce emotional pain and regain control. Over 12 years he has worked with a range of people, including law enforcement, first responders, those adjusting after incarceration, and others processing traumatic experiences.
He also has experience with family and parenting concerns and issues connected to relationships, work, sleep, and self-esteem. This background informs a flexible style that adapts to each person's needs. Michael is licensed in Missouri as an LPC and as an LCPC in Maine.
He offers sessions in English and provides online options such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. His work includes helping people manage stress, phobias, addiction-related struggles, and coping with life changes. Therapy begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling.
Michael aims to collaborate on realistic, step-by-step plans so people can move toward the life they want.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Michael often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people name unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT helps with anxiety, depression, phobias, and stress by breaking problems into concrete steps and practicing changes between sessions.He also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, which works on disturbing memories that keep causing pain. EMDR involves guided processing of memories so the emotional charge around them can decrease, which can help with trauma-related symptoms and phobias.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. He will listen to your goals and preferences, explain possible methods, and collaborate on a plan that fits your needs. The fit can change over time as progress is made and new issues appear.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy or unpredictable schedules. Video calls let you use visual cues and full conversation, phone sessions can work with lower bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging can be used for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep regular contact, practice skills between sessions, and fit therapy into day-to-day life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder 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
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Maine
- Languages
- English
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