Michael Davis
Support for parents and life changes
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed in
- Florida, Michigan, Kentucky
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michael
Michael Davis is a licensed clinical social worker with nearly two decades of practice. He focuses on common parenting and family concerns such as stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, relationship strain, and challenges around parenting and fatherhood. He works in English and practices from Florida, bringing a steady, practical presence to conversations about change.
He keeps sessions straightforward and personal. He listens without judgment and helps parents and individuals talk through immediate problems.
Background and approach
He uses clear tools and short-term goals so progress is easier to notice. Michael blends talk-based work with skill building. He often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thought patterns and DBT skills to manage strong emotions.
He also draws on client-centered principles to keep the focus on each person’s values and choices. His background includes many years providing in-home therapy and working with clients facing trauma, abuse, grief, ADHD, and substance issues. That experience shaped a practical, task-focused way of working that aims for realistic steps forward.
Sessions typically emphasize problem solving, communication practice, and coping strategies parents can use immediately. He collaborates on a plan, adjusts as needed, and checks progress along the way.
How his approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and supporting each person’s own goals. It means the therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects concerns back, and helps people choose what matters most to them. It is helpful when someone needs a calm, understanding space to sort through parenting or life decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. It uses simple exercises and homework to change unhelpful thoughts and build new habits, which can help with anxiety, depression, and coping under stress.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches practical skills for managing strong emotions and improving communication. It emphasizes grounding techniques, emotion regulation, and better ways to handle conflict or crises.
Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then try techniques that fit the client’s needs. This collaborative process helps shape a plan that feels useful and realistic.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to meet over video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules and to follow up between meetings. The range of formats supports different comfort levels and makes it simpler to keep therapy consistent over time.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Michigan, Kentucky, New York
- Languages
- English
Next step
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