About Michael
Michael Sanchez is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Florida with eight years of experience in the mental health field. He focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with addictions, sort through relationship challenges, and build self-esteem and motivation.
Background and approach
His style aims to be direct and respectful while keeping conversations clear and focused. Before offering online services, he worked in residential settings, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient programs for mental health and substance use.
That range of settings gave him experience with higher-intensity needs and complex situations. He brings that background into session planning and practical problem solving.
Sessions are tailored to each person’s situation. He blends approaches so conversations are goal-focused and realistic.
Expect a mix of listening, reflection, skill practice, and problem-solving steps that you can try between meetings. Michael values straightforward communication and a calm, nonjudgmental tone.
He aims to help people clarify what matters to them and take small, manageable steps toward those goals. If you want practical strategies for mood, stress, or addictive behaviors, he works with you to map a clear way forward.
Over time he helps clients track progress and adjust plans as needs change. That includes focusing on attachment patterns, everyday thoughts and behaviors, and personal narratives people tell about themselves.
The goal is steady, usable change rather than quick fixes.
Approach and online care that fit your goals
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds affect current relationships and emotional responses, helping people understand patterns like fear of abandonment or closeness avoidance. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on your concerns, with the therapist following your lead and reflecting what matters to you so you feel heard and respected. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new actions to reduce anxiety, low mood, and impulsive behaviors.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with you about your goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together you will try methods that fit your needs and adjust them as progress is made; it is a collaborative process rather than a fixed plan.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is useful for full conversations and skill practice, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging suit short check-ins or times when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, school, or family routines and to keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English