About Micheal
Dr. Micheal Weuste is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with four decades of practice in California. He supports people facing heavy life stress and relationship pain.
He helps people find steadier ground when life feels overwhelming or out of control. Dr. Weuste listens without judgment and helps people sort what matters most to them.
He often guides clients toward clearer choices when old ways of coping stop working. Conversations focus on practical steps people can try between sessions.
How Micheal works
His work covers common problems such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and addictions. He also addresses intimacy-related issues, parenting concerns, anger, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue. Additional areas of focus include attachment issues, blended family and fatherhood concerns, divorce and separation, and substance-related problems.
He uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s situation. These include cognitive behavior techniques to change unhelpful thoughts, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values, and emotionally-focused methods to improve close relationships. Attachment-based and client-centered perspectives also shape his listening and planning.
Sessions are practical and paced to what each person can handle. Dr. Weuste works to help people reconcile past difficulties with present choices so they can move forward with more confidence.
He encourages small, doable changes that add up over time.
Micheal lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Micheal works with
The areas below are the ones Micheal selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 40 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How online approaches and methods are used
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and build actions around those values while learning to accept difficult thoughts or feelings. It can be useful for stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and problems that respond to skill practice and behavioral experiments.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on the feelings beneath relationship struggles and aims to create new patterns of emotional connection. It can help people who want clearer communication and closer bonds with important others.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and situation. That choice can shift over time as needs change and progress is made.
Online therapy offers different ways to meet depending on what works practically. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options add flexibility for scheduling and for fitting therapy into everyday life.
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