Michael Ecuyer
Practical, coaching-minded therapy for families
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michael
Michael Ecuyer is a licensed clinical social worker with 33 years of experience. He combines a practical, coaching-minded approach with psychotherapy to help people move past obstacles and get on with their lives. Michael speaks plainly and keeps sessions focused on what matters most to each person.
He has worked with many adults facing relationship problems, stress and anxiety, depression, grief, addiction concerns, and parenting difficulties. He also supports people dealing with blended family challenges, caregiver stress, and the fallout from separation or divorce.
Background and approach
His practice includes issues such as intimacy concerns, communication problems, and coping with life changes. Michael uses a mix of approaches depending on the situation. He draws on Client-Centered Therapy to follow a persons goals, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy when relationships need repair.
He also uses mindfulness strategies and psychodynamic ideas when deeper patterns are relevant. Sessions may take place by phone, video, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Michael accepts international clients and conducts therapy in English.
He aims to help people find clearer direction and workable steps forward. To begin, visitors complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability. Michael holds a Texas LCSW, license number TX LCSW 67506.
How Michael blends therapy approaches for online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening carefully and following each person's goals. It helps people feel heard and clarifies what they want to change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the thoughts and habits that keep problems going. It is useful for anxiety, stress, low mood, and behavior changes. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on emotions and how people connect in relationships, which is helpful when couples or partners need better ways to communicate and rebuild trust.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about needs, goals, and preferences and then recommend methods to try. That decision is collaborative and can shift as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. These options make it easier to keep consistent work when life is busy or when in-person visits are difficult. The variety of formats lets people pick what feels most practical and comfortable while still working on relationships, parenting issues, stress, and other concerns.
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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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 of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
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