About Michael
Prof. Michael Feldler is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with decades of experience. He helps people who are stressed, anxious, grieving, coping with trauma, or dealing with addiction and relationship struggles.
He also supports concerns like sleep and eating problems, parenting strain, career stress, bipolar mood changes, and ADHD. He uses straightforward talk and active listening to understand what brought someone to therapy. Sessions tend to focus on practical steps, clearer choices, and building skills that ease daily life.
Background and approach
He often separates immediate problems from deeper patterns so both can be addressed. Michael draws on multiple approaches to match a person’s needs. He uses cognitive-behavioral tools to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior.
He brings attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current connections. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify values and take small actions toward them. Over 38 years in the field, he has worked in clinics and colleges and has supervised students in training.
That background shapes a teaching style in sessions - clear explanations and practical exercises. He has experience with trauma, addiction, and complex cases that involve overlapping problems. In a first session he will listen for what matters most and suggest a simple plan to start.
The focus is on small, achievable changes and on helping people feel more steady in daily life. He practices in New York as an LMHC and offers a calm, pragmatic approach.
How Michael’s approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, clarify what matters to them, and take small meaningful steps. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and behavior that cause distress and then testing and changing them with practical exercises. It often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep, and eating issues. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people change how they relate to others and to themselves; it can be helpful for intimacy, relationship, and attachment issues.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. He will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That means trying a method, checking what works, and shifting the plan together when needed.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people work visually and use exercises that feel like an in-person session. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter updates, step-by-step coaching, or when writing out thoughts helps more than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep progress moving forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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