About Michael
Michael Valdes is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people tackle everyday struggles and longer-term challenges. He focuses on clear, practical steps so clients can feel steadier and more in control. Michael works from Tennessee and brings 17 years of experience to sessions.
He uses straightforward conversation to learn what matters most to each person. Michael draws on approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance strategies, and client-centered work to match interventions to goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skills that can be used between meetings as well as new ways of looking at old problems. People often come for help with anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship concerns. He also supports those facing addiction, grief, trauma, and issues tied to identity and intimacy.
ADHD is among the areas listed, and Michael integrates practical routines and strategies into care when helpful. His style blends active skill-building with listening and support. That can mean practicing new behaviors, tracking what helps, and talking through patterns that get in the way.
The aim is steady, manageable progress rather than quick fixes. Michael explains his methods in plain language and works collaboratively to set goals. He offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step help pair a person with the right time and format.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate actions. It encourages identifying personal values and taking small steps toward them, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, concentrates on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. It uses structured exercises and homework to build skills for mood, worry, and behavior changes.
Michael treats finding the right approach as a team effort. He will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and day-to-day routines to decide which tools to try first. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions and change plans if something isn’t working.
Online therapy offers flexibility that many people need. Video calls let therapy feel more like an in-person meeting, phone sessions can fit a break at work or reduce bandwidth needs, and live chat or text-based messaging can support shorter check-ins or ongoing skill practice. These options make it easier to keep momentum and try techniques between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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