About Michael
Michael Ruberton is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with four decades of experience. He offers a warm, supportive way of working and encourages people to take the lead in sessions. Michael focuses on helping individuals manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, trauma, and relationship or family difficulties.
He has extensive experience across settings including office, in-home, and institutional work. That background shapes a practical approach that emphasizes real-life problems and clear steps forward.
How Michael works
Michael blends client-centered conversations with concrete strategies from cognitive behavioral methods. Sessions tend to prioritize building a working relationship first. Michael listens for a person’s goals and then helps them choose manageable next steps.
He uses motivational interviewing to support commitment and solution-focused ideas to track progress between meetings. People bring many kinds of problems, from grief and addiction to anger, low self-esteem, bipolar mood concerns, and issues related to intimacy or past abuse. Michael has also worked with aging and geriatric issues, codependency, family of origin matters, and self-harm concerns.
He practices in Missouri and conducts sessions in English. Therapy can take place by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging, using a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 40 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Michael uses client-centered therapy to follow what matters most to the person in the room. That approach focuses on active listening and empathy to help people name their goals and feel understood. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, provides hands-on tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change and can be helpful for addictions and commitment to new habits.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Michael will work with each person to identify goals, try an approach, and adjust as needed. He aims to be flexible and to combine listening with practical steps so sessions feel useful from the start.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not wanted. Live chat and text-based messaging make shorter check-ins and ongoing support easier between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep progress moving forward.
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