About Michael
Michael Brennan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with eight years of practice. He helps people find more meaning and clarity when life feels confusing or painful. He focuses on the whole person and aims to create steady, compassionate support during hard moments.
Michael spends sessions listening closely and paying attention to what’s happening in the room. He uses straightforward conversation and relational work to help people reconnect with what matters.
Background and approach
He emphasizes co-regulation and mind-body awareness rather than rushing through checklists. Many people come to him for anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and questions about identity or purpose. He also works with people dealing with addictions, career strain, ADHD, and major life transitions.
He takes seriously the experiences of people who feel let down by the mental health system and does not dismiss those concerns. His approach is grounded and nonjudgmental. He meets clients where they are and helps them move toward clearer values and goals.
Michael treats each person as an individual and focuses on rebuilding connection - with self, with others, and with everyday life. Sessions are paced to allow real conversation rather than a mechanical timetable. He aims to offer an attentive hour and is open to discussing timing needs upfront.
People looking for steady emotional support and practical steps to move forward often find his style helpful.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when feelings are difficult. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments to change patterns of behavior and mood. It often helps with anxiety, sleeping problems, and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships affect current connection and trust, and it can help people repair how they relate to others and to themselves.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. That conversation guides which methods are emphasized, and the plan can change as needs shift. The process is collaborative and paced to the individual's comfort.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals in video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows fuller conversation and visual cues, phone can be lower bandwidth or fit a short break, live chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for work, travel, or busy days while still focusing on steady, practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Nevada
- Languages
- English
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