About Mikel
Mikel Wallschlaeger is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) practicing in Ohio. He brings 13 years of experience and a straightforward focus on helping adults move past pain and find more peace. He aims to make sessions warm, kind, and flexible so people feel heard and not judged.
He draws on his own positive experience with counseling to guide his approach. That personal background informs his commitment to helping others reach greater contentment and well-being.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize compassion and practical steps toward change. Mikel works with adults across the life span, including young adults, middle-aged adults, and older adults. He has experience supporting people from many walks of life and diverse backgrounds.
Common concerns he addresses include anxiety, depression, stress, anger, grief, and difficulties with sleep or mood swings. He also helps people navigating career change, caregiving strain, aging and geriatric issues, and the challenges of chronic illness. Communication problems, feelings of emptiness, shame or guilt, and struggles with life purpose or midlife transitions are part of his focus.
Sessions combine practical problem-solving with emotional support. Clients can expect guidance on coping skills, self-esteem work, and managing panic or post-traumatic stress symptoms. The goal is to create a clear plan for moving forward while honoring each person’s values and pace.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Many of his sessions use evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach teaches skills for managing anxiety, panic, and stress through step-by-step breathing, grounding, and thought-challenging techniques to lower intense reactions. Another approach focuses on mood regulation and coping for depression or bipolar symptoms by building routines, activity planning, and problem-solving to reduce overwhelm and increase stability.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level, and adjustments are made as progress is tracked together.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow fuller face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit into a shorter break or require less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging can work for quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to get consistent help while juggling work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English