Michael (Mike) Wallington, LPCC

Michael (Mike) Wallington is a licensed professional clinical counselor with 44 years of experience who works from New Mexico. He approaches therapy with a calm, nonjudgmental manner and focuses on helping people regain balance when stress, grief, addiction, or relationship struggles make daily life harder. Mike explains issues plainly and aims to help people find practical ways to manage emotions and get back to functioning.

His practice centers on helping people understand how thoughts, feelings, and past attachments shape current behavior. He uses client-centered listening alongside cognitive behavioral tools and mindfulness practices to surface unhelpful patterns and test new ways of responding. Sessions often include straightforward skills work for anxiety, depression, and substance use, and attention to how relationships and loss affect coping.

Mike emphasizes collaboration in therapy. He helps a person identify goals, then works step by step toward those goals. That might mean learning emotion-regulation skills, practicing communication changes, or addressing feelings tied to abandonment or attachment wounds.

He also offers support for parenting concerns, blended family stress, fatherhood issues, and problems that come from family of origin wounds. Practical problem solving and reducing day-to-day distress are common focuses in his work.

Throughout sessions he encourages mindfulness and grounding practices so people can notice urges and make different choices. His style is steady, hopeful, and oriented to helping people rebuild satisfaction and meaning in life.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Attachment-Based Therapy in Mike's work focuses on how early bonds influence current relationships and emotional reactions. He helps people see attachment patterns, understand their triggers, and practice different ways of relating that reduce anxiety and conflict.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to help identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Sessions often include simple experiments and homework to try new responses to anxiety, depression, or urges linked to substance use.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches brief practices to notice emotions and urges without acting on them. These skills support calmer choices during moments of anger, grief, or craving and pair well with behavior-focused work.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to match methods to a person's needs, goals, and preferences. He will discuss options, try them out, and adjust plans based on what helps most.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when schedules require them, and reduce travel time. Because session formats are not listed here, please confirm the current options before booking so you know how sessions are scheduled. Many people find remote work especially helpful for maintaining continuity of care while managing work, family, and recovery obligations.