About Michael
Michael Mudgett is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Michigan with 18 years of experience. He focuses on helping adults who are navigating stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief, low self-esteem, addiction, and major life changes. He uses a warm, interactive style and aims to make sessions straightforward and practical for someone feeling overwhelmed.
Michael often starts by listening to what matters most to a person. He helps people build clearer communication skills and healthier ways to respond when emotions run high.
Background and approach
Sessions are described in plain terms so goals feel achievable instead of distant. His background includes long experience working with interpersonal conflict, trauma, and grief. He draws on client-centered and cognitive-behavioral ideas to tailor a plan to each person.
He also incorporates emotion-focused methods when closeness and trust are central to the problem. Michael brings a pastoral perspective to his clinical work and mentions spiritual themes when clients want that included. He aims to meet people where they are and respects each person’s beliefs while focusing on practical steps forward.
People who come to him often want help with communication, managing strong feelings, rebuilding after loss, or coping with addiction and mood struggles. He frames therapy as a collaborative process with clear skills and small goals that add up over time.
How Michael Uses Therapy Approaches Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when feelings are hard. It is useful for anxiety, avoidance, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems stuck; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) can be used to work through painful memories and lessen their intensity for people with trauma histories.Choosing the right approach is a process Michael handles collaboratively. He listens to a person’s goals and preferences, then suggests methods to try. If something isn’t helping, he adjusts the plan so work stays productive and aligned with what the person wants to change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video calls approximate in-person sessions for deep conversation and exercises. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good shorter option. Live chat and text messaging allow for shorter check-ins, step-by-step coaching, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options offer flexibility so therapy can match practical needs and daily rhythms.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English