About Michael
Michael Bohman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with four decades of practice. He draws on long experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, substance concerns, grief, and ADHD. He works with individuals facing mood difficulties, life transitions, or struggles with intimacy and relationships.
He has provided clinical care in many settings, including mental health and substance use programs. Michael has also worked on domestic violence and trauma-related issues and spent years supervising other clinicians.
Background and approach
That background informs a steady, practical approach in sessions. In therapy he focuses on clear goals and simple, usable strategies. He blends client-centered listening with tools that change thinking and behavior.
Sessions often include mindfulness exercises, problem-solving, and motivation-focused conversations to help people take next steps. Michael also draws on psychodynamic ideas to notice patterns that repeat across relationships and time. He uses that awareness to help people understand recurring problems and make different choices.
He pairs insight work with hands-on tools so progress is both felt and practiced. He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging for flexible care. Michael works with adults across a range of concerns, including caregiving stress, chronic health challenges, and questions about life purpose.
He practices in Virginia and speaks English.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Michael combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques to support people making concrete changes. Client-centered therapy means being heard and steering sessions around what matters most to the person. Cognitive behavioral work looks at unhelpful thoughts and habits and builds simpler ways of coping that can reduce anxiety or improve sleep.He also uses mindfulness practices to help people notice stress and calm their focus. Mindfulness can be a brief breathing or attention exercise to steady emotions during a hard moment. Together these approaches offer both understanding and tools for everyday life, and he will work with each person to choose what feels most useful. Deciding which approach to try is a collaborative process based on your goals, needs, and preferences, not a one-size-fits-all prescription.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone meetings, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video works well for longer sessions where visual connection helps, phone can fit a quick check-in or lower bandwidth, and text or chat can support brief updates or homework between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep continuity when life gets in the way.
Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does this therapist address?
How would you describe his therapy style?
What experience does he bring to sessions?
Where is he licensed and based?
In what languages can someone work with him?
What session formats are available?
How does cost and billing work?
How do I begin working with him?
What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.