- Client-centered care
- Focus on depression
- Practical skills
About Michael
Michael Jankowski is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing depression, anxiety, stress, and relationship concerns. He draws on two decades of clinical experience to listen, reflect, and guide people toward clearer next steps. Michael aims to meet each person where they are and to support them through hard moments with steady attention.
He uses practical talk and focused questions rather than jargon. Sessions often involve looking at what keeps problems going and trying small changes to test what helps. Michael blends client-centered listening with strategies from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness approaches to help people manage mood and day-to-day demands.
His background includes long-term work with LGBTQ issues, relationship struggles, self-esteem concerns, and complex situations such as caregiving stress, illness, and end-of-life planning. He also supports people coping with abandonment, attachment questions, and alternative sexual cultures like BDSM and kink when those topics are relevant to a client’s goals.
Michael describes his role as walking alongside people while they find meaning, purpose, and greater balance. He emphasizes vulnerability and honest conversation as tools for change. Over time he helps people build practical habits, repair communication, and experiment with new ways of responding to old problems.
Clients coming to therapy should expect an approachable, steady clinician who values acceptance and real-world coping skills. Michael works from Michigan and conducts sessions in English.
He uses practical talk and focused questions rather than jargon. Sessions often involve looking at what keeps problems going and trying small changes to test what helps. Michael blends client-centered listening with strategies from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness approaches to help people manage mood and day-to-day demands.
His background includes long-term work with LGBTQ issues, relationship struggles, self-esteem concerns, and complex situations such as caregiving stress, illness, and end-of-life planning. He also supports people coping with abandonment, attachment questions, and alternative sexual cultures like BDSM and kink when those topics are relevant to a client’s goals.
Michael describes his role as walking alongside people while they find meaning, purpose, and greater balance. He emphasizes vulnerability and honest conversation as tools for change. Over time he helps people build practical habits, repair communication, and experiment with new ways of responding to old problems.
Clients coming to therapy should expect an approachable, steady clinician who values acceptance and real-world coping skills. Michael works from Michigan and conducts sessions in English.
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