About Michael
Michael Maddock is a licensed mental health counselor and licensed professional counselor with 15 years of experience. He helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship difficulties, and life transitions. He also supports those managing trauma, eating and intimacy-related concerns, ADHD, and career stress.
He favors a compassionate, client-centered approach. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps. Michael listens closely, reflects what matters, and helps people try small changes between meetings.
Background and approach
His work blends several evidence-informed methods, including cognitive behavioral techniques and existential ideas about meaning and choice. He also draws on the Gottman Method for relationship dynamics and motivational interviewing for readiness to change. Those approaches are mixed to fit each person's situation and goals.
Michael trained at the University of Central Florida and has practiced across different settings over his career. He has experience with assessment and a variety of clinical concerns, and he keeps up with current developments through roles that involve psychiatric assessment tools. He provides online therapy options such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging.
Sessions are scheduled through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. International clients may be supported, and sessions are offered in English.
Approaches that guide online work
Michael often uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers the session on the person's experience and priorities and helps people feel heard while deciding on next steps. He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes that reduce anxiety or lift mood. Existential Therapy is another strand he draws on to help people clarify values, find meaning, and face life transitions with intention.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist reviews concerns, goals, and preferences together with each person and adjusts methods as progress is made. That means the plan can shift if something isn’t working and focus on what the client finds most useful.
Online therapy is offered via video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quicker check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing brief check-ins and reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this counselor 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