About Michael
Michael Anderson is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, depression, and grief. He uses a practical, down-to-earth style and draws on life experience in blue-collar work and creative pursuits to relate to clients. Michael is licensed as an LICSW in Minnesota and brings six years of clinical practice to his work.
He focuses on immediate, manageable steps that reduce overwhelm. Sessions often include breathing and body-based awareness, discussion of patterns that keep problems repeating, and skills for tolerating strong emotions.
Background and approach
Michael combines somatic ideas with cognitive strategies and emotion-focused work to meet real-life problems. His approach keeps language simple and direct. He listens for the story behind the struggle and helps people make small changes that add up.
Michael emphasizes mindfulness and practical coping tools rather than abstract theory. Clients can expect a collaborative process. Goals are set together, and progress is checked in regularly.
He also draws on existential and Jungian ideas when it helps people find meaning and direction. Michael’s background includes long experience in industrial work, plus creative interests in singing and photography. That mix informs a flexible, relatable style that aims to reconnect people with sources of purpose and personal strength.
Approaches that connect body, thought, and emotion
Michael blends somatic-focused work with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to address both physical sensations and thinking patterns. Somatic-focused work pays attention to bodily feelings and movement to help people notice how stress and trauma show up in the body and learn ways to regulate those sensations. CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and helps people try new, more helpful thinking and behavior patterns. DBT adds skill-building around emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and mindfulness to manage intense feelings and reduce impulsive reactions.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Michael collaborates with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps. The process is interactive and paced to the client’s comfort and needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and energy levels. These options make it easier to practice skills between sessions and to check in when life gets busy, while keeping therapy accessible from home or work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English