Michael provides counseling and other clinical social work services to adults, children, adolescents, and families. His approaches include cognitive and behavioral therapy, positive behavior supports, social skills coaching, and generalist social work practice. He also integrates methods from existential psychology and various mindfulness approaches, as well from other psychotherapeutic frameworks when appropriate. Michael supports clients and their families in self-advocacy, creating positive and supportive family environments, and with working with outside resources.
Michael has his bachelor’s degrees in psychology and in consciousness studies, and his master’s degree in social work. Through these degrees, he has background in a variety of psychotherapeutic approaches, and knowledge of a range of mental health disorders. Michael has additional training in working with people with neurodevelopmental disorders through his master’s level internships, which included a LEND traineeship, which is a federally funded training program for training professionals to work with neurodevelopmental disorders.
Years In Practice10
Primary Specialty
Counselor
GenderMale
EducationMaster's degree in Social Work, from West Virginia University
ServicesThe Mental and Social Health Center provides counseling and other clinical social work services for people with mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders, as well as for people who are interested in self-improvement, but may not have a mental health condition. We approach counseling holistically, working to address practical issues, while approaching in-depth psychological issues when appropriate. In addition to conventional counseling approaches, we provide families with behavioral strategies, teach social skills, do advocacy, and teach self-advocacy skills.
One of our areas of specialization is in working with clients with neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We have first-hand experience dealing with the challenges of ASD, both from the perspective of parenting, and from the perspective of living as a person on the autism spectrum. We also have substantial background in working with ASD, including one of us being trained in positive behavior supports and having background in applied behavior analysis (ABA).Additional ServicesMental Health, Autism, ASD, Asperger's Syndrome,