About Michael
Michael Dykes welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, addiction, grief, or big life changes. He opens sessions with a calm, straightforward style that helps people explain what is most urgent for them. Michael keeps language simple and focuses on practical next steps to make coping feel more manageable.
He uses methods that center the person's experience and build skills for daily life. Sessions often include looking at thought patterns, learning mindfulness techniques to reduce reactivity, and talking through how past experiences affect current behavior.
How Michael works
Michael also works with trauma-focused approaches when painful events need careful processing. Michael brings 20 years of clinical experience to his practice in Georgia. He holds the LCSW credential and the CSW designation, and he draws on a mix of client-centered, cognitive behavioral, mindfulness, psychodynamic, and trauma-focused ideas.
He aims to make therapy understandable and useful rather than overly technical. People who want help with relationship worries, intimacy concerns, parenting stress, or career strain will find clear, action-oriented support. He also addresses substance use, codependency, chronic health struggles, and issues like abandonment or forgiveness when those come up.
Sessions move at the client's pace, with attention to both immediate relief and longer-term change. Michael invites anyone ready to take a first step to reach out and begin the matching process. He works in English and accepts international clients, offering a range of online session formats to fit different schedules and needs.
Michael lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Michael works with
The areas below are the ones Michael selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
Approach and online care that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience and strengths, giving space to tell the story and guiding toward goals at a comfortable pace. It helps when someone needs validation and practical direction rather than a prescriptive plan.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses straightforward exercises to shift unhelpful thinking and build new habits, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and grounding practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. These techniques are often paired with other interventions to help manage cravings, mood swings, or racing thoughts.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan as needs change. That teamwork helps make therapy useful in day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules. Video is useful for a full-session experience, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging can support shorter check-ins or flexible communication during busy weeks. These options make it easier to keep regular appointments and use therapy alongside work and family commitments.
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