Mr Michael Serpico
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
“My clients would describe me as a warm, humorous, attentive, and inquisitive therapist. I integrate specific methodologies to offer a highly personalized and tailored approach. I specialize in working with people who had painful experiences from their past that continue to affect them today.”
About Me
Approach
Michael is an interactive, relationally psychoanalytic oriented psychotherapist. His approach combines tenets of drive theory, ego psychology, object relations, and self-psychology to provide support and feedback to the people he works with in an effort to help them navigate personal life challenges. He integrates specific methodologies and techniques to offer a highly personalized and tailored approach to each person he works with. Compassion and empathic attunement are the building blocks for treatment with all his patients.
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Services
Services Offered:
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Relationship Counseling
Counselling for couples or partners focused on improving communication, rebuilding trust, and strengthening emotional connection.
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Adolescent Therapy
Therapy designed for teenagers, using age-appropriate methods to address issues like anxiety, identity, peer pressure, and family conflict.
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Individual Therapy
One-on-one therapy sessions between a client and a therapist, focused on that person's specific concerns and goals.
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Works With:
- •Elderly
- •Families
- •Individuals
Area of Expertise
Scope of Practice:
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Abuse
Emotional, physical, or sexual mistreatment by another person that causes lasting psychological harm and disrupts a person's sense of safety.
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Addiction
A compulsive dependence on a substance or behaviour, such as alcohol, drugs, or gambling, that causes harmful consequences to health, relationships, or daily life.
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Relationship Issues
Difficulties in romantic relationships, including communication problems, trust breakdowns, conflict patterns, or uncertainty about the relationship's future.
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Body Image
How a person perceives, thinks, and feels about their physical appearance. When persistently negative, it can drive distress, avoidance, and disordered eating.
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Self-Esteem
A person's overall sense of their own worth and value. When chronically low, it can drive self-doubt, avoidance, and difficulty in relationships.
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Personality Difficulties
Long-standing patterns of thinking, feeling, and relating to others that cause persistent distress or problems in relationships and daily life.
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Young Adult Issues
The unique psychological challenges of emerging adulthood (18–25), including identity formation, independence, relationship navigation, and finding direction.
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Professional Title:
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Licensed Mental Health Counselor
A counselor licensed to provide mental health assessment, diagnosis, and treatment.
Qualifications
Barry University
Nova Southeastern University