About Michael
Michael Spain is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 30 years of clinical experience. He offers practical, down-to-earth help for people feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or uncertain about their next steps.
Background and approach
He focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. He also helps with parenting concerns, family conflict, and recovery from addictive or compulsive behaviors.
He commonly supports people dealing with loneliness, guilt, or problems with communication and control. In sessions he looks for patterns that get in the way of daily life.
He uses simple tools to build coping skills and clearer communication. Clients work on short, doable steps that can lead to noticeable change.
His methods draw on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and Systemic Therapy. He adapts those approaches to what each person needs and prefers, and he includes faith-based options when requested.
Michael offers services in English and Spanish and sees people across Texas and beyond. He aims for collaborative sessions that help people find clarity, resilience, and practical movement forward.
Online approaches that focus on action and meaning
Michael often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test small behavioral changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood, and stress because it links thinking, feeling, and doing in clear steps.He also uses Narrative Therapy to help people rewrite the stories they tell about themselves and their relationships. This approach can reduce shame, increase agency, and open up new choices. Solution-Focused Therapy appears in shorter work to set clear goals and identify the next practical steps that can be tried right away.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Michael discusses options with each person and tailors methods to their goals, preferences, and life situation. The plan is collaborative and can change as needs evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging allows brief check-ins or ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep progress moving forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish