Michael D. Wade, PhD, LMT
Counselor and Licensed Massage Therapist
License No. 7803
Many of my clients are relieved that they can call me Michael. At Freedom Counseling Center we provide an informal therapeutic environment. I founded the center in 1990, after returning from five years of cross-cultural and interracial marriage and family counseling based in Hong Kong. This form of counseling presents some of the most difficult issues found in individual, marriage, and family counseling. My own cross-cultural immersion experiences gave me personal insight into these issues and helped me adapt the counseling experience into a form that acknowledges the differences in each individual and their relationships. This approach has been extremely effective for all forms of individual therapy as well as couples, and family units.
Using a process oriented approach and creative collaboration; together, we design solutions for your unique situation. With this form of therapy, the counselor never needs to tell the client what to do because the process generates an achievable resolution. I receive much feedback about how learning to utilize emotions is extremely beneficial to daily pursuits. Clients frequently tell me they didn’t know counseling could be so enjoyable.
Education has also played a very central role in the development of my counseling style. After six years of undergraduate and graduate work at Pepperdine University, studying counseling, psychology, hypnotherapy, and world religions, the opportunity to study cross-cultural counseling in the context of living in a cross-cultural environment at the University of Nations in Kona, Hawaii helped integrate my academic experience into a practical and effective process that I continue to use today. However, I strive to stay current with the explosion of recent research and offer clients the latest information, so I recently went back to school and completed an MS in psychology at Capella University and expect to complete the PhD in psychology in 2012.
Using a process oriented approach and creative collaboration; together, we design solutions for your unique situation. With this form of therapy, the counselor never needs to tell the client what to do because the process generates an achievable resolution. I receive much feedback about how learning to utilize emotions is extremely beneficial to daily pursuits. Clients frequently tell me they didn’t know counseling could be so enjoyable.
Education has also played a very central role in the development of my counseling style. After six years of undergraduate and graduate work at Pepperdine University, studying counseling, psychology, hypnotherapy, and world religions, the opportunity to study cross-cultural counseling in the context of living in a cross-cultural environment at the University of Nations in Kona, Hawaii helped integrate my academic experience into a practical and effective process that I continue to use today. However, I strive to stay current with the explosion of recent research and offer clients the latest information, so I recently went back to school and completed an MS in psychology at Capella University and expect to complete the PhD in psychology in 2012.
