- 20 years experience
- Client-centered approach
- Works with LGBT concerns
About Michael
Michael Jankowski is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience. He focuses on helping people who feel stuck by working on stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and self esteem. He aims to meet clients where they are and walk alongside them through change.
He uses a straightforward, accepting style in sessions. He listens first, then helps people name what matters and set small, manageable goals. Conversations often turn toward finding meaning, rebuilding confidence, and practical steps for daily life.
Michael draws on client-centered work that prioritizes the person’s experience and on cognitive behavioral techniques that look at thoughts and behaviors. He also uses mindfulness practices to slow down strong feelings and solution-focused strategies to find quick, realistic changes that help in the short term.
Over two decades he has worked with a wide range of concerns including LGBT-related issues, attachment and abandonment worries, caregiving stress, end-of-life topics, and complex sexual culture concerns like BDSM and kink. He also supports people dealing with grief, infidelity, family conflict, and health-related stress such as cancer or HIV/AIDS.
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Michael emphasizes compassionate support while helping people build skills they can use outside the therapy room. To start, he asks clients to share where they are now and what they hope to change so they can plan realistic next steps together.
He uses a straightforward, accepting style in sessions. He listens first, then helps people name what matters and set small, manageable goals. Conversations often turn toward finding meaning, rebuilding confidence, and practical steps for daily life.
Michael draws on client-centered work that prioritizes the person’s experience and on cognitive behavioral techniques that look at thoughts and behaviors. He also uses mindfulness practices to slow down strong feelings and solution-focused strategies to find quick, realistic changes that help in the short term.
Over two decades he has worked with a wide range of concerns including LGBT-related issues, attachment and abandonment worries, caregiving stress, end-of-life topics, and complex sexual culture concerns like BDSM and kink. He also supports people dealing with grief, infidelity, family conflict, and health-related stress such as cancer or HIV/AIDS.
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Michael emphasizes compassionate support while helping people build skills they can use outside the therapy room. To start, he asks clients to share where they are now and what they hope to change so they can plan realistic next steps together.