About Michael
Michael Witham is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing from Wyoming. He brings 26 years of experience to sessions and uses straightforward methods to help people manage strong emotions and difficult life moments. He started practicing in 2002 and has worked in crisis response and resolution.
Over the years he has led individual and group sessions that focus on impulse control, coping with depression and anxiety, and building decision-making and organizational skills.
Background and approach
Michael often blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques. That means he listens to what matters most to each person and then helps them try practical changes in thinking and behavior. He focuses on reducing harmful habits, improving coping with stress, and strengthening everyday choices.
He has experience addressing complex problems such as chronic pain, severe psychotic symptoms, addictions, grief, and bipolar concerns. He also supports people facing parenting strain, sleep and eating difficulties, and struggles with self-esteem and anger. Sessions are aimed at clear, measurable goals while building the person's confidence to manage life changes.
Michael prefers a direct, collaborative style that outlines steps people can use between sessions. He welcomes conversations about what will help most and how to make steady progress.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Michael combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy in online care. Client-centered work focuses on listening and understanding each person's goals, then shaping sessions around what matters most to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical strategies to change them, which can help with anxiety, depression, and decision-making. Dialectical behavior therapy adds skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication when feelings run high.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which methods to try based on current needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative choice can change over time as progress is made or new challenges appear.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into daily life. Video lets people work face-to-face when more interaction is useful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between longer meetings or share quick updates without scheduling another call. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and responsive to changing schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Wyoming
- Languages
- English