Michael Kubiak
Experienced Michigan LMSW guiding steady change
- Credentials
- LMSW
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michael
Michael Kubiak is a Licensed Master Social Worker with 25 years of clinical experience in Michigan. He draws on long experience to guide people through stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, and parenting concerns. He works in plain language and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Clients meet a therapist who values steady, respectful conversation. Sessions are aimed at helping a person find clearer ways to cope, communicate, and make small changes that add up.
Background and approach
The approach is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. In practice he uses methods like cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness to help shift unhelpful thoughts and reduce intense reactions. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques are used when people want to set goals and move toward concrete changes.
These approaches are explained simply so clients know what to expect. His background includes long-term clinical work across a range of concerns such as grief, sleep and eating issues, ADHD, relationship strains, and substance use. He also addresses problems tied to family of origin, blended families, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and divorce or separation.
Sessions are practical and goal-oriented while honoring each person’s pace. The emphasis is on learning tools for daily life - better communication, healthier routines, and steadier coping - so people can feel more capable handling the challenges they face.
How his approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and following the person’s lead. In this approach the therapist supports the client’s own goals and helps them explore feelings at their own pace, which can help with stress, low self-esteem, and major life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real life. It teaches simple exercises to change thinking patterns and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and some eating concerns.
Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about change. It uses short, focused conversations to build motivation and set small, achievable goals for things like reducing substance use or improving routines.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each client about their needs, goals, and preferences and then tailor the approach. This is a collaborative process and may change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when video is not possible, and live chat or text messaging fits people who prefer writing or need quick check-ins. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work consistently 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.
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
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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