Mike Driscoll, LCPC

Mike Driscoll is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Illinois with 14 years of experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, anger, depression, and life changes. He frames the work around each persons own story and strengths. Mike aims to make the first steps easier for someone who feels stuck or overwhelmed.

Clients can expect straightforward, practical conversations that point toward usable coping steps. He listens to what matters most and helps people notice thoughts and everyday habits that keep problems going. Sessions often look at small changes you can try between meetings to test what helps.

Mike uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try different responses. He also draws on Existential Therapy to address meaning and purpose when life feels uncertain. Solution-Focused Therapy helps him and clients set concrete, short-term goals and build from successes.

He has experience supporting people dealing with aging and geriatric concerns, first responder issues, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and struggles around forgiveness, guilt, and shame. He also works with obsessive thoughts and related compulsions, and with feelings of paranoia.

Sessions are conducted in English and Mike accepts international clients. Costs vary with location and a subscription system is used that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

How his approaches translate to online work

Mike commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and habits, which can be practiced as doable exercises between sessions. Existential Therapy is used when questions of meaning, purpose, or life transitions are central, helping people clarify values and make intentional choices. Solution-Focused Therapy centers on concrete, short-term goals and small steps that quickly show whether a change is helping.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work itself. He collaborates with each person to see which methods fit their needs and preferences, and adjusts the plan as progress is made. This lets people test ideas and pick what feels most useful rather than committing to one fixed method.

The profile does not specify which session formats are offered, so confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when schedules demand it. They also let people try techniques at home and then discuss how those experiments went in the next meeting, which can speed up practical change.