Michael Bohman
Calm, practical therapy for everyday struggles
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed in
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michael
Michael Bohman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with four decades of professional experience. He practices in Virginia and brings a steady, practical approach to common struggles like stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression, parenting challenges, and life transitions. He talks plainly and directly so parents can quickly understand options and next steps.
He draws from client-centered methods that focus on each person’s strengths. He also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help rework unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Mindfulness methods and motivational interviewing are part of his toolkit when people need to build motivation or calm racing thoughts. His background includes long work in mental health, substance abuse, domestic violence, and trauma. He has decades of experience as a clinical supervisor and as a consultant for trainings and program development.
That history means he often explains things in practical terms and offers skills parents can try between sessions. Sessions address both immediate problems and longer-term patterns. He helps people manage symptoms like sleep or appetite changes, anger, or low mood while also looking at relationship and family concerns when those are part of the difficulty.
He has worked with a wide age range and many kinds of life situations. Michael combines straightforward conversation with proven techniques. The focus is on clear goals, small steps, and building coping skills that fit each person’s life.
He welcomes English-speaking clients and accepts international clients when appropriate.
Approaches and online options for practical change
Michael combines client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy in ways that are easy to understand. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building on what already helps, which can be useful for parents who need straightforward support. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches skills to change patterns that cause stress or low mood.He may also use mindfulness techniques to help calm the mind and reduce reactivity during stressful moments. Together these methods are chosen to match the person’s immediate needs and longer-term goals. Finding the right approach is a shared process - he collaborates with clients to decide what fits their situation, goals, and preferences rather than imposing a single method.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls create a face-to-face experience while phone, live chat, and text-based messaging offer flexible options when schedules or childcare make in-person meetings difficult. These formats support continuity of care and let people practice skills between sessions in their everyday environment.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Michael
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