About Michael
Michael Letendre is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 15 years of professional experience in Massachusetts. He focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and addiction. He aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and supported.
He creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can speak honestly about what they are facing. Sessions are conversational and practical. Michael listens for patterns that make daily life harder and works with each person to try out new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Michael also helps people address relationship strains, intimacy concerns, grief, and family-related stress. He brings attention to how past experiences affect current reactions and relationships. This can include support around adoption and foster care, aging issues, and multicultural concerns.
Over his career he has worked with a wide range of challenges, including obsessions and compulsions, phobias, hoarding, and issues tied to gender identity or HIV/AIDS. He offers steady guidance for those recovering from trauma, natural disaster, or first responder stress. Sessions aim to balance emotional processing with concrete steps you can use between meetings.
The goal is to help people feel less stuck and build routines that fit their lives. Michael speaks English and works with both local and international clients.
Approaches that guide online sessions and practical benefits
Michael uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on helping people process difficult events and build better daily routines. One approach emphasizes talking through traumatic memories and the ways they affect current feelings; this helps people reduce distressing reactions and regain a sense of control. Another approach concentrates on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing different ways of thinking and behaving to improve mood and reduce anxiety.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust the plan as you progress. Clients and therapist work together to find what helps most, balancing emotional work with practical homework between sessions.
Online therapy offers flexible options for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when lower bandwidth is needed or when a check-in fits a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, ongoing support, or people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to access consistent care from Massachusetts or abroad.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English