Michael Brennan , LCSW

Michael Brennan, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people live with more meaning, clarity, and integrity. He believes that most people have the capacity to build a life that feels aligned with what matters to them, even during periods of deep struggle. His work centers on reconnecting clients with their values and helping them move forward in ways that feel true to themselves.

He approaches life as a mix of joy and suffering and meets the full range of human experience with steadiness and compassion, without judgment. In sessions he makes room for grief, anxiety, fear, uncertainty, and change while also attending to resilience, growth, and the quieter forms of well-being that emerge as connection is restored.

Michael works with adults and young adults facing anxiety, depression, major life transitions, grief, trauma, addictions, questions of identity or purpose, and creative blocks. He is particularly attentive to people who have had difficult experiences with psychiatric or psychotherapy systems and who need their experiences acknowledged rather than minimized. He also supports Veterans, individuals in recovery, and those navigating relationship and attachment challenges.

His style is grounded, relational, and conversational. He emphasizes connection as central to healing, drawing on co-regulation, mind-body awareness, and attention to the here and now so the work can unfold responsively. As a community-oriented social worker, he pays attention to power dynamics and the ways systems shape individual suffering. Practically, his sessions are meant to be full and attentive; he may occasionally run a few minutes behind and is open to discussing timing needs up front rather than enforcing a strict cutoff mid-thought.