About Michael
Michael Michnya is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey with 39 years of experience helping people through life transitions. He focuses on relationships, parenting, addiction recovery, and supporting individuals who want clearer direction and better cooperation at home. He also works with concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
He uses straightforward conversation and practical steps in sessions. Michael encourages creativity and honest communication.
Background and approach
He asks clients to try small experiments between sessions and to share what works and what doesn’t. Earlier in his career he taught preschool and volunteered for child abuse prevention, then worked in long-term rehabilitation for adolescents with substance use issues. He later coordinated family-adolescent alcohol services and managed programs that supported at-risk children and families.
These roles involved individual, group, and family work and supervising in-home counselors. More recently he has combined agency work with independent practice, offering counseling to adults with addictive disease and people seeking life or career coaching. Over decades he has helped many people improve parenting dynamics, repair couple relationships, and tackle communication problems and blended-family issues.
Michael describes his approach as hopeful and creative. He looks for practical ways for clients to use their strengths. He aims to help people make steady changes that fit their lives and goals.
How therapeutic approaches work in online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's priorities, helping people feel understood so they can find their own solutions. It is useful for building trust and sorting out what matters most in relationships and parenting.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with anxiety, depression, sleeping problems, and coping with life changes.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on emotions and connection in relationships, helping partners or individuals recognize what they need and how to communicate it more effectively.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then try methods that match what the client hopes to change. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust the plan if something doesn't fit.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people keep face-to-face interaction without travel. Phone sessions can be a good choice when lower bandwidth or not being on camera helps. Live chat and text are useful for quick check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when a shorter, written exchange fits a busy schedule.
These options make therapy more flexible for different schedules and needs, allowing clients to keep progress steady while balancing work, parenting, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 39 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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