Mikel Wallschlaeger, LPCC

Mikel Wallschlaeger is an Ohio-based Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) with 13 years of clinical experience who focuses on helping adults navigate stress, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, grief, and life transitions. He brings a warm, compassionate, and flexible style to his work, and over the course of his career many people have described their counseling with him as kind, gentle, understanding, and unjudging. Earlier in life he personally experienced counseling, a chapter that shaped his commitment to helping others find greater peace, wholeness, and wellbeing.

Mikel has worked extensively with adults across the lifespan - young adults, middle-aged adults, and older adults - from metropolitan, semi-rural, and rural communities. His experience includes working with African American clients, people who are homeless, professionals, those living with chronic illness, and individuals receiving hospice care. As a generalist using evidence-based therapeutic techniques, he addresses a broad range of concerns including mood disorders, panic and anxiety symptoms, bipolar mood swings, sleep problems, anger and coping skills, self-esteem, social anxiety, communication and relationship problems, career transitions, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue.

He also supports clients facing existential questions - meaning and life purpose, midlife transitions, isolation and loneliness, forgiveness, and guilt or shame. While he does not identify primarily as a Christian counselor, he is willing to reference Christian scripture or materials when clients request that perspective. Mikel works collaboratively with each person to identify goals and select evidence-based approaches that fit their needs, preferences, and life circumstances.