Michael Leffingwell, LPC
Compassionate somatic-informed counseling for life changes
About Michael
Michael Leffingwell is a licensed professional counselor in Texas with 13 years of experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and low self-esteem. Michael uses a respectful and compassionate style and aims to meet each person where they are.
He combines hands-on body-oriented work with talk therapy to help people notice how stress and trauma show up in the body. He also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns that affect mood and trust.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and solution-focused techniques are used when practical steps and skill building can help people feel better fast. Michael often works with people facing life changes, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and struggles with addiction or eating-related issues. He also supports those dealing with family of origin problems, attachment wounds, and commitment or communication difficulties.
Sessions are shaped around the concerns you bring and what matters most to you. He believes therapy should be simple to understand and fit daily life. Conversations are tailored to your needs and paced to your comfort level.
Michael aims to help clients develop tools they can use between sessions. Sessions are offered in English and provided through several online formats. Practical next steps and collaborative planning are part of the process from the first meeting onward.
Approach, body awareness, and online care
Michael blends somatic therapy, attachment-based work, and client-centered principles to help people when stress, trauma, or relationship patterns feel overwhelming. Somatic therapy pays attention to sensations in the body and uses that awareness to reduce tension and reactivity. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape trust and closeness and helps people build more stable connections. Client-centered therapy focuses conversations on your experience, pacing the work to your comfort and priorities.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with you about your goals and try different methods to see what helps most. Sessions are adjusted over time based on what you find useful and what fits your life.
Online therapy offers practical benefits like flexibility and easier access to care. Video calls let you talk face to face from home, phone sessions can be more convenient for busy days, and live chat or text messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain consistent care while fitting therapy into a regular routine.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English