Michael Denning
Practical support for everyday family and life challenges
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michael
Michael Denning is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Florida with seven years of clinical experience. He works with people who are facing stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, bipolar symptoms, grief, and other everyday struggles. He emphasizes a straightforward, respectful approach that treats each person as the expert on their own life.
In sessions he focuses on practical, goal-oriented work. He uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and shift behaviors.
Background and approach
He also draws on client-centered principles to follow the client’s lead and build on their strengths. Mindfulness practices are woven into conversations when they help reduce worry and improve sleep. Motivational interviewing tools are used for people who feel stuck or are changing habits related to substance use.
Solution-focused methods help set clear, short-term goals for concrete progress. He has supported people through relationship strain, intimacy concerns, career stress, compassion fatigue, and issues tied to attachment or abandonment. Michael also addresses ADHD, body image, codependency, and coping with life changes or separation.
Therapy with him is aimed at making things more manageable day to day. Sessions move at a steady, practical pace and focus on what is useful right now. Michael encourages small steps and clear action so clients can see concrete changes over time.
Therapeutic approaches and online flexibility
Client-centered therapy means conversations follow the client's priorities and strengths, with the therapist offering support rather than directives. This approach is useful when someone wants a collaborative, respectful space to talk through personal challenges.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and managing mood shifts by breaking problems into concrete steps.
Michael will work with clients to find the best approach for their needs, goals, and preferences. That choice is collaborative and may change as progress is made. He helps people try methods and see what fits before settling on a plan.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. These options let people fit sessions around work, caregiving, or busy schedules and continue support when travel or timing would otherwise be a barrier. The range of formats supports different comfort levels, from real-time conversation to short check-ins by message.
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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
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