About Michael
Michael Brackett is a licensed professional counselor who helps people untangle painful patterns and make clearer choices. He works with stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship concerns, and issues like grief or low self-esteem. His tone is calm and direct, and he aims to make therapy feel understandable and practical.
Michael draws on 15 years of clinical experience and a background in teaching psychology. He blends psychodynamic ideas with Jungian depth work to look at how past experiences shape current patterns.
Background and approach
He also uses emotionally-focused and attachment-based approaches to help people notice what shows up in relationships and in the body. Sessions are collaborative and often involve noticing feelings in the moment, tracking recurring themes, and trying small, concrete experiments between meetings. He may invite mindfulness, symbolic or creative exercises, and attention to bodily sensations.
These methods are offered to help people move from understanding into real change. Michael has worked with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, addictions, LGBT issues, parenting stress, career transitions, and somatic symptoms. He emphasizes practical ways to manage symptoms while also exploring deeper meaning and identity when clients are ready.
Located in Colorado, he brings a reflective, steady presence and aims to help clients reclaim purpose and agency. The work is paced to each person's needs, with a focus on clearer communication, improved emotional regulation, and renewed direction.
Approach and online care that meet you where you are
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds influence current relationships and emotional responses. It helps people notice patterns in closeness and distance so they can try new ways of connecting. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on feelings in the moment and how those feelings shape interactions; it is often used when relationship patterns cause repeated hurt or disconnection. Jungian Therapy looks at deeper personal symbols and life narratives to uncover recurring themes and sources of meaning, which can be useful for people facing questions of identity, purpose, or recurring inner conflict.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Michael will work collaboratively to see which methods fit a client's goals, needs, and preferences, and he adjusts strategies as the work unfolds. This helps ensure the work stays relevant and practical rather than rigidly following one method.
Online therapy offers flexible options such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a break at work or when bandwidth is low, and messaging or live chat can be used for short check-ins or when writing things out feels easier. These formats make it simpler to schedule consistent work and to try different ways of staying connected with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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