About Michael
Michael Jenkins is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience. He focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma and grief.
Background and approach
He aims to make beginning therapy feel straightforward and manageable for worried parents and individuals. He creates a calm space where people can say what they think and feel without judgment.
Sessions are practical and paced to match what each person needs. He helps people handle hard feelings and find clearer choices for daily life.
Michael offers eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, often called EMDR, to address traumatic memories and intense reactions. He also uses client-centered work to follow what matters most to the person in the room.
Emotionally-focused methods guide conversations about closeness and connection when relationships feel strained. Over his career he has supported people coping with grief, major life changes, and issues like anger, self-esteem, and intimacy concerns.
He also brings experience addressing abandonment, communication breakdowns, divorce and separation, and military-related stress. Sessions are available in Virginia and conducted in English.
Michael aims to help people regain a sense of stability and move toward the life they want. Starting therapy is framed as a step-by-step process grounded in real problems and real solutions.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online care
Michael integrates Client-Centered Therapy to follow each person's lead and create space for honest sharing. This approach emphasizes listening and reflecting back what matters most, which can help people clarify values and immediate goals. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) is used to work on patterns of connection and emotional responses in relationships, helping people name feelings and shift recurring interactions. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is offered to process traumatic memories and reduce intense reactions tied to past events.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences, and then suggest methods that fit. This collaborative process makes room to try different techniques and adjust as progress is made.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep consistent momentum toward goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Tennessee
- Languages
- English