Michael Letendre
Calm, practical support for life’s hard moments
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michael
Michael Letendre is a licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and depression. He aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about difficult thoughts and feelings.
He emphasizes practical steps and steady support rather than quick fixes. He encourages small, manageable changes that fit into daily life. Sessions typically focus on understanding patterns that keep problems active and trying new ways of responding.
Background and approach
Michael draws on practical, evidence-based techniques to reduce symptoms and build coping skills. He also addresses issues such as addictions, grief, and intimacy-related concerns. His work includes attention to a broad range of life challenges, including adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, hoarding, and multicultural concerns.
He has experience with first responder issues, coping after disasters, and matters related to gender dysphoria and HIV/AIDS. He also supports people facing obsessive-compulsive patterns, phobias, and relationship difficulties like infidelity and jealousy. Michael practices in Massachusetts and holds the credential Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC.
He offers sessions in English and is open to working with international clients. For many people, starting therapy is the hardest step, and he aims to make that first step straightforward and compassionate.
Practical approaches for online family and parenting concerns
Michael uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real-life change. One common approach emphasizes skill-building for stress and anxiety management, teaching breathing, grounding, and behavior changes that reduce overwhelm. This helps people handle daily pressures and respond differently when emotions spike.Another approach targets trauma and depression through structured work that looks at unhelpful patterns and introduces new ways of thinking and acting. This method aims to decrease intrusive symptoms and increase small, meaningful improvements in mood and function. These approaches are useful for a range of concerns, including relationship tensions and grief.
Finding the right method is a collaborative process. The therapist and client work together to decide which techniques fit the client’s needs, goals, and preferences. Michael will adapt the plan as progress is made and as priorities change.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make scheduling more flexible and let clients choose what feels easiest for them. Many people find that remote sessions help them stay consistent with treatment while balancing work, school, or family life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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