Michael Witham
Calm, practical therapy for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed in
- Wyoming
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michael
Michael Witham is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Wyoming with over 26 years of experience. He uses a straightforward, client-centered approach and clear techniques to help people manage stress, anxiety, and changes in their lives. He keeps sessions practical and focused on what a person wants to change.
Parents reading this will find plain language and direct plans rather than clinical jargon. He began practicing in 2002 and became licensed in Wyoming in 2012.
Background and approach
His work has included crisis response and initial diagnostic planning. He has run individual and group sessions that target impulse control, coping with depression and anxiety, and building decision-making and organizational skills. Michael also has experience helping people manage chronic pain and severe psychotic symptoms.
He draws on cognitive-behavioral techniques to teach skills for emotion regulation and problem solving. He combines that with a client-centered stance that prioritizes each person’s goals and choices. In sessions he focuses on clear, doable steps.
That might mean practicing a coping skill, planning how to handle a stressful event, or breaking a problem into smaller parts. He aims to build confidence and increase self-reliance through practical work rather than long explanations. People who choose him can expect goal-oriented conversations and tools to use between sessions.
He uses strategies from several approaches to match a person’s needs. His style is calm, direct, and focused on measurable progress.
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Michael combines client-centered work with cognitive-behavioral therapy to make online sessions direct and useful. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following what the person wants to change, helping people feel heard and supported while they set their own goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions, and teaches specific skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and improve decision-making.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. He will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. That lets him blend approaches so the plan fits the person rather than forcing a single method.
Online sessions use video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. These formats let people fit therapy around parenting, work, or medical needs and keep progress consistent between visits. The variety of options also makes it easier to practice skills in real life and check in between longer appointments.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Wyoming
- Languages
- English
Next step
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