Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy for Complex Histories
Specialized care for professionals navigating ADHD, relational trauma, and the patterns that keep you stuck — evidence-based psychotherapy delivered via secure telehealth across Florida, with counseling, coaching, and Mindful Hypnosis™ for Toronto and the Province of Ontario.
This is not a wellness clinic.
This is specialized psychotherapy for people with histories that don't fit into typical talk-therapy models — professionals who have kept it together on the outside while managing patterns that don't respond to surface-level interventions.
I work with professionals who:
- Have tried therapy before without sustainable results
- Navigate high-functioning ADHD that masks deeper dysregulation
- Carry trauma histories that require more than symptom management
- Need a clinician who understands complexity, not just coping skills
You're looking for:
- A clinician who treats you as psychologically sophisticated, not fragile
- Depth-oriented therapy that respects your intelligence and time
- Evidence-based interventions without hype or rigid protocols
- Trauma processing that doesn't require months of "building safety"
Three steps. No pressure.
Complete Intake Paperwork
A secure online form covering your history, current concerns, and therapy goals. Typically 15–20 minutes.
Initial Consultation
A 53-minute video session to assess fit, clarify goals, and determine the most appropriate treatment approach.
Begin Psychotherapy
Weekly sessions via HIPAA-compliant telehealth, available throughout Florida. Evening availability.
Self-pay: $175 per session · Insurance accepted via Headway.co, Grow Therapy, Teladoc Health, and Alma · No weekend or Monday availability.
You don't have to decide everything now. The intake process is designed to be slow and transparent — if you're uncertain, text me. I respond personally, and there's no pressure to book.
Pathways to Individuation
A concierge telehealth practice for high-achieving professionals, partners, and families — inclusive of LGBTQ+, non-monogamous, and polyamorous structures. Select a pathway to explore its architecture.
Michael holds an active LMHC license in the State of Florida, permitting the full scope of licensed mental health practice. All clinical services below are delivered via secure, HIPAA-compliant telehealth throughout Florida.
A one-to-one clinical container for the professional navigating transition, rupture, or the quiet pressure of their own ambition — operating at the intersection of evidence-based practice and depth psychology, honoring both symptom and soul. Affirming of LGBTQ+ identities, non-monogamous life structures, and diverse spiritual paths.
Trauma processing
- Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)
- Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) · Written Exposure Therapy (WET)
- EMDR (Basic Training) · Brainspotting
Clinical focus
- Anxiety, burnout, and executive fatigue
- Trauma and post-traumatic stress
- ADHD and attentional architecture
- Identity, vocation, and midlife reconfiguration
- Grief, faith transitions, and meaning-making
A structured relational container drawing on Imago Relationship Therapy, attachment science, and communication repair — affirming and structurally literate for monogamous, non-monogamous, polyamorous, and open partnerships, LGBTQ+ couples, and constellations with more than two partners.
- Communication breakdown and chronic conflict
- Infidelity, agreement breaches, and trust reconstruction
- Intimacy, desire, and sexual dynamics
- Boundary, hierarchy, and agreement architecture for open/poly relationships
- Parenting alignment · Pre-marital and pre-commitment work
An initial assessment arc of three 60-minute sessions is standard before shifting to a sustainable cadence.
Systems-level work for families moving through rupture, transition, or inherited pattern — inclusive of chosen families, LGBTQ+ family systems, blended and step families, and polyamorous households. We attend to structure, role, and intergenerational transmission, surfacing what has been carried silently.
- Parent-child relational repair
- Adolescent emergence and identity formation
- Blended, step-, and chosen family integration
- LGBTQ+ coming-out and affirmation work
- Intergenerational trauma and legacy patterns
- Life transitions: launch, illness, loss
Weekly therapy operates on an institutional rhythm — fifty minutes, once a week, closed before the deeper material has room to resolve. Clinical Intensives compress the work: a half or full day of continuous processing resolves material that ordinarily spans twelve to twenty weekly sessions. No re-entry, no loss of momentum.
In-person delivery in Fort Lauderdale available at no additional clinical fee, at a private venue of the client's choosing. Venue and accommodations are arranged by the client independently.
The third register of the work — a deliberately rare, multi-day engagement along the Fort Lauderdale waterfront, reserved for clinical work that benefits from a complete change of ground and an extended sequence no single day can hold. The setting is not incidental: salt air, the cadence of water, and the deliberate absence of ordinary context are clinical architecture. Sessions conducted in the privacy of your accommodations, a private reserved space, or aboard your vessel — never a public clinical setting.
Retreat fees cover the complete clinical engagement — pre-arrival preparation, all on-site clinical work, and post-retreat integration. Accommodations, dining, transportation, and any yacht charter are arranged independently by the client or their concierge. A small number of engagements are accepted each season.
Ontario services are delivered via telehealth as coaching and Mindful Hypnosis™ — not regulated psychotherapy, which remains Florida-only under the LMHC license. RP (Registered Psychotherapist) application in progress with CRPO.
Executive & Lifestyle Coaching
- Executive performance and leadership coaching
- Health coaching — lifestyle, nutrition, movement
- Wellness coaching grounded in the Harvard Medical School Lifestyle Medicine framework
- CBT-informed cognitive coaching
- Motivational Interviewing for sustainable change
- Depth-psychology and Dominican-rooted methodology
Mindful Hypnosis™
- Mindful Hypnosis Protocols™ (Slonena, PsyD)
- CMIP-grounded mindfulness integration
- Performance anxiety and identity work
- Habit and automatic pattern change at the level of process, not content
- Stress regulation and nervous-system support
- BSACH advanced training added Fall 2026
Counseling & Psychoeducation
- General & non-clinical counseling
- Psychoeducation
- Tele-hypnosis available across the Province of Ontario
Coming to Ontario
- Individual psychotherapy (on RP confirmation)
- EMDR trauma processing (training complete; Ontario rollout pending RP registration)
- Full ART protocol in psychotherapy context
- BSACH advanced clinical hypnotherapy (Fall 2026)
A Practitioner Shaped by Method
Each modality chosen deliberately — for empirical rigour, neurological precision, and alignment with the whole person. Training includes certification in trauma-focused interventions (CCTP, EMDR Basic Training via the Trauma Therapist Institute, Accelerated Resolution Therapy) and ADHD-specific psychotherapy (ADHD-CCSP), applied within evidence-based frameworks adapted to your specific presentation.
Dominican Roots: from Oxford to Executive Mastery
Forged at the world's oldest English-speaking university and carried forward by one of approximately 25 Dominican universities worldwide — Barry University's CACREP-accredited clinical formation carries the charter of contemplata aliis tradere: to hand on to others the fruits of contemplation. Not as ornament, but as operating method — the capacity to hold rigour and compassion together, and to pursue truth without cruelty.
- 1221Dominican friars arrive at Oxford — Blackfriars founded; the tradition takes root in England.
- 1940Dominican Sisters of Adrian found Barry University, Miami Shores — the tradition crosses the Atlantic to Florida.
- 1994Oxford grants Blackfriars Permanent Private Hall status — 773 years after the friars first arrived.
- 2020–21Oxford Mindfulness Centre pandemic programme — the contemplative foundation of the practice.
- 2024ART Certified (IS-ART Member) · CCTP — Certified Clinical Trauma Professional.
- 2025ADHD-CCSP — executive-function specialisation across the lifespan.
- 2026Mindful Hypnosis Protocols™ completed (Slonena, PsyD).
- 2026EMDR Basic Training completed — Trauma Therapist Institute, live synchronous training, NBCC ACE / EMDRIA / APA-accredited. Verify →
- 2026Pending: Harvard Medical School Executive Education (Summer) · BSACH advanced clinical hypnosis (Fall).
Harvard Medical School — Lifestyle & Wellness Coaching
The Harvard Medical School Executive Education programme bridges Dominican-formed clinical depth with the most current empirical science of human performance and flourishing. Where the Dominican tradition supplies the philosophical architecture, this programme supplies the language and methodology the contemporary executive expects — the Foundational Lifestyle Pyramid, behavior-change theory, and Motivational Interviewing technique now form the backbone of every coaching engagement offered to Ontario clients.
Delivered via Harvard Medical School's Executive Education platform in partnership with Emeritus. Credential verifiable directly through the issuer — not a self-reported claim.
Clinical Depth · Scientific Rigour · Artistic Formation
MSc Clinical Mental Health
Barry University · CACREP-accredited · Dominican foundation · Psi Chi International Honor Society
LMHC · QS · NCC
Licensed Mental Health Counselor & Qualified Supervisor (MFT & CMHC licensure supervision), Florida · National Certified Counselor
CCTP · ADHD-CCSP
Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (2024) · ADHD Certified Clinical Services Provider (2025)
ART · EMDR · Brainspotting
ART Certified 2024, IS-ART Member · EMDR Basic Training completed 2026, Trauma Therapist Institute — verify →
Harvard Medical School
Executive Education · Lifestyle & Wellness Coaching · completing Summer 2026 · verify →
New World School of the Arts
Top-ranked US conservatory · University of Florida · Miami Dade College · Miami-Dade County Schools
NSF REU — Oklahoma State University
National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates, 2007 — federal research award, Oklahoma State University, under site advisor Dr. Melanie Paige.
Calm Reset
A 20-minute guided relaxation exercise
A self-guided bilateral stimulation practice for easing tension in the moment — present-focused, capped at twenty minutes, and stoppable any time. This is a wellness resource, not therapy and not trauma processing.
Before and after, you'll rate your stress on a simple 0–10 scale (a SUD rating — Subjective Units of Distress) — just enough to notice whether the twenty minutes helped, nothing clinical.
A few quick questions
These help make sure this tool is a good fit for you right now — there's no wrong answer, and if it's not the right fit today, this'll point you somewhere better.
Check "18 or older" to proceed — the others should generally stay unchecked to continue to the exercise.
This tool isn't the right starting point today
A self-guided exercise isn't the safest next step right now, based on what you shared.
Before you start
Find a seat, silence notifications, and use headphones if you have them — the audio alternates gently between left and right ears. You're in control the whole time; there's a Stop button on screen throughout.
Let your eyes follow the movement, or simply rest your gaze and let the sound guide you. Thoughts will come and go — there's nothing to do with them but let them pass.
How are you feeling now?
Before you go, ground back in the room
Check each one off as you notice it — under a minute, and it closes things out gently.
Nicely done
You checked in before and after — that noticing is the whole point, whichever direction the number moved.
Ready to Engage the Examined Life?
A complimentary 15–30 minute discovery consultation — to explore whether this work is suited to where you are and where you intend to go. No commitment. No pressure. Completely confidential.
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