About Michael
Michael Brennan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with eight years of practice in Nevada. He focuses on helping adults and young adults find more meaning and clearer direction when life feels confusing or painful. He aims to support people through grief, anxiety, major life changes, and struggles with identity or purpose.
He meets clients with steady presence and plain language. Sessions are conversational and relational, with attention to what is happening in the moment.
Background and approach
He pays close attention to people who have had difficult experiences with psychiatric or therapy systems and treats those concerns seriously. Therapy with him often includes co-regulation and mind-body awareness alongside talk. He works to restore connection - with oneself, with others, and with everyday life.
The approach balances responsibility with compassion for social and systemic pressures that shape a person’s experience. People come for help with depression, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, career questions, and sleep problems. He also supports those facing grief, compassion fatigue, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and body image or identity questions.
Sessions are paced to allow space and attention rather than strict rush. He values honesty about fit and timing, and he will discuss scheduling needs upfront. His manner is direct but warm, aimed at helping people move toward clearer choices and steadier functioning.
Evidence-informed approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when strong emotions are present. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions because it emphasizes action and acceptance rather than getting stuck in symptom reduction.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connection and trust. Working with attachment ideas can help people who struggle with intimacy, abandonment fears, or repeating difficult relationship patterns to build more supported ways of relating.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about what feels most important and try methods that match their goals and preferences. Together they will adjust pace and style so sessions fit the client’s needs rather than following a rigid plan.
Online sessions can be done by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and moments of need. Video calls allow face-to-face connection, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat can provide quick check-ins or shorter exchanges between sessions. These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care during life changes, travel, or busy work weeks.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Nevada
- Languages
- English