About Michael
Michael Fentress is a licensed mental health counselor who brings ten years of practice to people in Florida. He holds both LMHC and LPC credentials and focuses on helping clients through depression, addiction, relationship struggles, and major life changes. His style is straightforward and compassionate, aiming to make therapy feel practical and understandable.
He creates a calm space for people to talk through painful experiences and confusing emotions. Sessions emphasize clear goals and usable skills rather than long academic explanations.
Background and approach
He often helps clients build self-compassion, reduce isolation, and find ways to handle stress and burnout. Michael uses several approaches to match what a person needs. He blends acceptance-based strategies with cognitive tools and attachment-focused work to address patterns that keep showing up in relationships.
Treatment plans are adjusted as conversations reveal what helps most. He has experience with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, LGBT issues, grief, parenting stress, ADHD, and compulsive behaviors. That background informs how he shapes sessions to deal with emotional pain, behavioral change, and practical day-to-day coping.
Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules and styles. People who start therapy complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability.
How therapeutic approaches work in online sessions
The therapist commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without letting them block meaningful action. ACT can help when avoidance or stuckness keeps someone from living the life they value.He also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps when trust, intimacy, or repeated relationship conflicts are central concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals and comfort level. Plans are adjusted over time based on what proves most useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can pick what fits their schedule and needs. Video works well for therapy that relies on in-the-moment feedback, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a work break. Live chat or text messaging can be used for brief check-ins, homework support, or when a shorter format helps someone stay consistent.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English