Michael Williams , LPC

Michael Williams is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 35 years of experience. He grounds sessions in a whole-person perspective that links feelings, behavior, and life circumstances. Michael aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people who are anxious, overwhelmed, or facing major life changes.

He trained in psychology at Morehouse College and completed a master of arts in psychology at Washington University in St. Louis. That education helped shape a counseling style that balances insight with concrete tools. Michael draws on several well-known approaches to meet different needs rather than using a single technique.

In sessions he focuses on common problems like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction concerns, and difficulty coping with life transitions. He also helps with parenting challenges, career uncertainty, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. He works with issues that often overlap, such as codependency, communication problems, and body image concerns.

Because he lists Women’s issues among his areas of focus, Michael is accustomed to addressing concerns that often affect women across life stages. He also brings experience with aging and geriatric issues, blended family questions, fatherhood issues, multicultural concerns, and men’s issues when relevant to an individual’s goals.

Sessions use approaches like client-centered counseling, cognitive behavioral techniques, attachment-focused work, emotionally-focused methods, and mindfulness practices. Michael aims to help people notice patterns, learn manageable skills, and take small steps toward clearer priorities and better coping.

How attachment work, CBT, and mindfulness translate online

Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people notice how those patterns affect feelings and behavior. Online sessions can use conversation and reflective exercises to identify attachment patterns and practice new ways of relating.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. In remote sessions, CBT can include worksheets, thought records, and short behavioral experiments to try between meetings.

Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve coping. These practices can be guided during a video call or offered as short recorded or written exercises for text-based formats.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean starting with client-centered conversation, adding CBT tools, or layering mindfulness and attachment-focused exercises over time.

Online formats are chosen for convenience and flexibility. Video calls let therapists see facial cues and do longer, interactive sessions. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a quicker check-in. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter updates, brief coaching, or people who prefer writing to talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.