Telephone sessions offered by Dr. Michael are essentially the same as face-to-face in office visits other than client’s converse with Dr. Michael by telephone. Private, confidential and accommodating your schedule, telephone sessions can be arranged at a time convenient for you.

Perhaps you’re a bit hesitant over the effectiveness of telephone counseling and have some questions about it. That’s certainly understandable, yet be assured the results achieved from Dr. Michael's many years of telephone sessions have proven to be every bit as effective as those achieved in his office sessions.

Numerous studies have also found telephone counseling to be very effective and clearly beneficial, with multiple sessions being most helpful. Unsurprisingly, many people actually prefer telephone consultation to face-to-face visits, finding distance phone sessions to be a less embarrassing and more comfortable way to discuss their private sexual and relationship concerns. Phone sessions are also a convenient supplement to face-to-face meetings when time or distance is a factor.
 

For anyone seeking telephone counseling from anywhere in the world,

Dr. Michael is a highly qualified, talented, and eminently EFFECTIVE distance counseling specialist.
 

Dr. Michael is a professionally trained telephone counselor with over 40 years of telephone counseling experience. As a young professional starting out in his career he chose to specialize in the delivery of high-quality telephone counseling, beginning as a 24 Hour crisis intervention and suicide prevention counselor with the New Orleans Crisis Line in 1981.

Since then, as a sex therapist and marriage counselor, his more than three decades of expertise in telephone counseling with many thousands of clients worldwide have seasoned Dr. Michael into an exceptionally proficient clinician who excels in rendering aid, comfort and precious hope telephonically.  

As an accomplished and reputable distance counselor, you can trust Dr. Michael for competent, confidential, and nonjudgmental help by telephone with your sexuality and most valued personal relationships.

From his Hawaii-based private practice, he devotes his major time to providing discreet, confidential, and leading-edge mental health care to clients locally, nationally, and internationally via face-to-face office visits and global telephone counseling. 

Dr. Michael is also available for worldwide travel to clients seeking intensive face-to-face treatment within the privacy and comfort of their home. Dr. Michael specializes in providing accelerated and completely confidential treatment to celebrities and high-profile individuals. Please call for details.

BUSINESS PARTNER COUPLES COUNSELING
For Anyone Wanting to Work Better Together as a Team

For interpersonal conflict and challenges within purely BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS, Dr. Michael also specializes in providing completely confidential Business Partner Couples Counseling for anyone in a business relationship seeking to get along better with their partner(s). When counter-productive or destructive interpersonal dynamics are undermining your ability to work well together as a team, Dr. Michael excels in helping partners decrease conflict while increasing ease and effectiveness within the work environment. Available face-to-face at your location or by telephone. Please call for details.

Telephone session lengths are the same as in office visit lengths that are either 50 or 80 minutes in duration. Local clients meet with Dr. Michael weekly at his Hilo-side office. Distance clients call Dr. Michael at their appointment time once weekly. Expedited sessions are also available for those wanting longer sessions or desiring multiple weekly sessions for quicker results.

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is a theory of personality and system of psychological training and treatment that emphasizes the role of unrealistic expectations and irrational beliefs. REBT is based upon the precept that emotions follow from our thoughts and judgments about people and events, and not from people or events themselves. REBT seeks to address disturbances caused by false and distorted beliefs towards overcoming the predisposition towards faulty thinking. As a skilled and seasoned REBT counseling expert, you can trust discussing your most private matters frankly and openly with Dr. Michael.

Clients of Aloha Sexual Health & Happiness receive the highest level of evidence-based individual therapy for sexual and/or mental health and/or marital & relationship challenges, whether by telephone or in-person. And while you may rightly associate us with sexual and marital health, please know that we are also a comprehensive wellness counseling center able to help you manage a wide variety of emotional and mental health issues.

Specializing as a Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) clinician, Dr. Michael utilizes only the most effective and proven approaches to mindfullness-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).

From 1991-97, Dr. Michael perfected his REBT clinical skills in his mid-town Manhattan private practice. During this same period Dr. Michael had the highly good fortune to attend the international Albert Ellis Institute in upper Manhattan as both a student and a counseling client of the eminent sexologist, world renowned psychologist, and acknowledged "father" of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, the late Dr. Albert Ellis.

As a care giver today, Dr. Michael continues to embrace the philosophy of empowering his clients to consciously live at cause in their life so as to bring about more of what is wanted and less of what is not.