About Michael
Prof. Michael Feldler is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with decades of experience helping people facing anxiety, stress, depression, addiction, grief, and ADHD. He speaks plainly and listens carefully to what individuals bring to sessions.
He aims to reduce isolation and help clients move toward the life they want. In sessions he focuses on practical steps and clearer thinking. He uses straightforward techniques to address unhelpful patterns, manage strong emotions, and build day-to-day coping skills.
Background and approach
He also pays attention to attachment patterns and how early relationships shape current difficulties. Over a long career he has worked in many settings and has taught and supervised students at the college level for more than a decade. That background informs a teaching style in therapy - explaining ideas clearly and practicing skills together in session.
Clients can expect a direct but warm approach. Sessions often mix talking about what’s happening now with looking at deeper patterns that keep problems recurring. He treats issues like trauma, addictions, and relationship struggles with careful attention to both immediate needs and longer-term change.
He draws on several well-known methods to match the work to each person. The focus is on helping people notice what matters, make values-based choices, and build habits that support a fuller life.
How his methods translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify their values and take small steps toward them while learning simple tools to handle painful thoughts or feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and shifting behaviors through practical exercises and homework. CBT is often used for anxiety, mood problems, and developing better daily routines. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current interactions and trust; it helps people understand relationship triggers and build healthier connections.Finding the right blend of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, try techniques in session, and adjust the plan as progress and needs become clearer. That shared approach helps make sure the work fits the person's life and challenges.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which provide flexibility for different circumstances. Video calls let people work face-to-face when helpful, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a work break, live chat allows shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing brief reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to practice skills in everyday moments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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