Michael Fentress
Supportive therapist for life transitions
- Credentials
- LMHC, LPC
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Florida, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michael
Michael Fentress is a licensed mental health counselor who brings ten years of clinical experience to his work in Florida. He holds LMHC and LPC credentials and focuses on helping people facing depression, addiction, anxiety, trauma, and major life changes. He creates a calm, respectful atmosphere where people can talk through hard feelings and figure out next steps.
Michael uses straightforward, practical conversation to help clients notice patterns and try new ways of responding.
Background and approach
He listens for what matters most to each person and tailors sessions to those priorities. Sessions are collaborative and paced to fit each client's needs. His approach draws on techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and shift behaviors.
He also uses acceptance and commitment therapy ideas to build values-driven action. Attachment-based work informs how he helps people understand relationship needs and emotional responses. Michael has worked with a wide range of concerns including parenting, grief, stress, self-esteem, and identity questions.
He also addresses intersectional issues like adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and kink-affirming concerns when relevant. His background includes supporting people through career shifts and compassion fatigue. In sessions he focuses on clear goals and small steps.
He helps clients practice skills between meetings and track progress over time. The goal is practical change that fits everyday life, so people can feel more steady and purposeful moving forward.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then take small steps toward what matters to them. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes where values and action matter. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and testing new ways of thinking and acting; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching concrete skills. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and emotional responses to help people understand why they react a certain way and try different approaches in close relationships.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Michael will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they try methods that fit the person's situation and adjust over time based on what helps.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life transitions, and follow up between meetings. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, process emotions, and set practical steps that translate into everyday life.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
Next step
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