Michael's approach to counseling is punitive and with the glass half empty view. He uses ridicule to motivate and disparages the client's past and character. He is like the cynical cop and looks at the world through a negative lens, the opposite of a positive approach. His clients are the nail and he is the hammer. One size fits all. Michael is not Christ like, Jesus never stooped to shaming or demeaning, he built people up to where he wanted them to grow. His clients are emotional punching bags. Michael is a putative bully and uses his counseling platform to berate his clients, an ego boost perhaps or a controlling fetish? He confuses his role, acting like a prosecutor rather than a therapist. Michael does not have a dialogue with his clients, he has a punitive condescending lecture. He is a poor listener and has control issues, he needs covert anger management counseling. If you were beaten half to death by your parents, he states "You are responsible!" What if you were sexually abused, are you responsible? This is Michael's view point. Clients are responsible for seeking help but they did nothing to deserve physical abuse or sexual abuse, period. They need an empathetic counselor that allows the patient to grieve and move on. This statement that "You are responsible" is a cop out for a therapist. He doesn't have to take any responsibility with this statement. Michael is lopsided in his marriage counseling approach, favoring one spouse over the other, emotionally dog-piling on one and not confronting the other, no sense of balance and fairness. He falls into the trap of "Contempt prior to Investigation." Tony Robbins cured a man in 15 minutes who stuttered for his whole life. Look it up, it is on Youtube. It would take years for Michael to cure this person, if even possible. When mentioning Tony Robbins NLP techniques Michael dismissed this state of the art counseling method, unwilling to learn anything new or acknowledge NLP merits. His eyes glazed over and he became defensive and agitated. New technology has passed him by, he would rather spend years collecting fees than use a proven faster form of therapy. We don't work on carburetor's anymore. Why make client counseling a meal ticket for 5 years? This is self serving and it doesn't have to be this way. I had a previous counselor pre-covid for 6 months and not once did they engage Michael's negative shaming adversarial approach or conduct in therapy. In the end, Michael is a mediocre therapist at best and a at worst a disgrace to his profession. Michael, "You are responsible" to be a loving, caring therapist willing to embrace new techniques, void of shaming and having contempt for his clients. read more