About Michael
Michael Ecuyer is a licensed clinical social worker with 33 years of experience. He combines a life-coach mindset with practical therapy to help people move past obstacles and pursue goals. Michael practices in Texas and offers sessions in English, including options for international clients.
He uses a client-centered approach to focus on each person’s needs and strengths. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to identify unhelpful thinking and change behaviors.
How Michael works
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people understand and shift relationship patterns that cause pain. Michael has worked with many concerns over his career. Common areas include stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and intimacy-related issues.
He also helps with parenting stress, blended family challenges, career struggles, and caregiver strain. His additional focus includes adoption and foster care questions, attachment issues, chronic illness and pain, codependency, divorce and separation, and coping after disasters. He also supports people facing commitment fears, communication problems, and control issues.
Sessions can be held by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Costs vary by location and a subscription model is used that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person selects Start Therapy, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules according to the therapist’s availability.
Michael lists 7 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 33 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Approach and online care that fits your life
Michael blends client-centered work with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to focus on what matters most to each person. Client-centered therapy means the conversation follows the client’s goals and pace while highlighting strengths. CBT offers concrete steps to notice unhelpful thoughts and test different behaviors to reduce distress.He also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy when relationship patterns are a central concern. EFT helps people name and shift emotional responses that get in the way of closeness and communication. Together the therapist and client decide which approach or combination will help most, based on goals, preferences, and how life looks day to day.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy schedules and different needs. Video works well when seeing facial expressions helps the work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and messaging are useful for brief updates, coaching-style check-ins, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, caregiving, or travel.
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