About Michael
Michael Maddock is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns, and issues with self-esteem and coping with life changes. He holds both a Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential and a Licensed Professional Counselor credential and brings 15 years of clinical experience to his work.
He offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. He favors a direct, compassionate style that focuses on what each person needs right now.
Background and approach
Sessions typically include practical strategies for calming anxiety and improving mood, along with time to talk through painful events and relationship patterns. He encourages clear goals and checks progress regularly. Michael draws on several approaches to match the work to the person.
He uses client-centered methods to follow the client’s lead, and cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. He also brings existential ideas when clients are facing big life questions or searching for meaning. His background spans many clinical settings and a variety of concerns, which informs a flexible, individualized approach.
He has experience supporting people with ADHD, bipolar disorder, grief, eating and body image struggles, anger, and parenting stress among other issues. He also works with people coping with abandonment, attachment challenges, and intimacy-related matters. Michael has provided telehealth services for several years and uses a collaborative process to set clear, achievable steps.
New clients begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a session based on availability.
How his approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on following the client’s lead and creating a supportive space. In online sessions this means the therapist listens closely, reflects what matters most to the client, and helps the person set the pace for change. It is useful for people who want to feel heard and understood before moving into practical steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches concrete skills to change thought patterns and behaviors that keep problems going. Online CBT often uses short homework tasks, thought records, and behavioral experiments that clients can practice between sessions to reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each client to pick methods that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. That can mean combining client-centered listening with CBT exercises or trying different techniques until something fits.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - offer flexibility for different needs. Video allows face-to-face conversations; phone can be handy when bandwidth is limited; live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, written coaching, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep continuity when travel or life changes occur.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, Florida
- Languages
- English