Michael Friedman , LMHC

Michael Friedman is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 13 years of clinical experience working with children, teens, and adults. He understands how daunting it can feel to reach out for help and strives to make therapy approachable and relatable. Having been on both sides of the therapeutic relationship, he brings practical insight, a sense of humor, and a warm, friendly manner to sessions.

Throughout his career Michael has supported people facing depression, anxiety, parenting challenges, relationship difficulties, trauma and domestic violence, career and life transitions, and families navigating personality disorders. He also studied art therapy counseling and offers creative, expressive options when clients are interested in exploring them.

His style is interactive, engaged, and empathic, blending cognitive and behavioral techniques with psychodynamic and humanistic perspectives to create individualized care. He emphasizes strength-based, trauma-informed work that helps people use their existing resources to meet challenges, learn new skills, and shift perspective. Michael’s goal is to help clients build practical tools, foster personal growth, and feel supported as they pursue the changes they want to make. He maintains a professional, yet approachable presence in sessions and values collaboration in the therapeutic process.

Integrating therapeutic approaches for effective online care

Michael draws from several evidence-informed approaches to shape online work in ways that fit each person’s needs. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships influence current patterns - it helps people understand connection, trust, and closeness issues and supports healing around attachment wounds. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the client’s perspective and innate capacity for growth - the therapist offers empathy, active listening, and gentle guidance so people can explore values, goals, and self-understanding at their own pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and provides practical tools to reduce distress and change unhelpful patterns, which can be especially useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.

Finding the right approach is part of the process, and Michael collaborates with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. He adapts techniques over time and combines approaches when that better serves progress.

Online therapy options such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time, and maintain continuity when schedules change. These formats allow licensed professionals and therapists to offer consistent, flexible care that meets people where they are while supporting steady therapeutic work.