What the Process is Like
Michael specializes in serving adults and adolescents going through significant life change and/or recovering from trauma. His work focuses on client strengths (a la the Gallup Organization) and supporting clients in the creation of achievable and motivating goals. He also coaches executives, clinical, and other leaders in creating or fine tuning their life mission and their unique leadership or service contribution, committed to the belief that service and the mental health of the ‘server’ are deeply intertwined.
MICHAEL'S BACKGROUND
Michael Beavers is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. He is also a leadership and life coach, supporting clients' (typically therapists, business or community leaders, or other professionals) who are looking to maximize their potential through the development and execution of cutting-edge strategies. His experience includes founding and leading Mountain Counseling & Training, Inc., a not-for-profit community organization focusing on providing Wraparound-style children's services to severely challenged youth and their families.
He is a graduate of California Baptist University, has received post-graduate training in leadership development and coaching at the San Bernardino County Management Leadership Academy (at which he also served as a training consultant) and the Executive Coaching College. Michael has over two decades of experience as a marriage and family therapist, specializing in family therapy, Wraparound, and individual clinical work. He has also been active in community service, serving Rotary and faith-based groups in such areas as Abolition.
He is currently working on developing a non-profit organization focused on building Christian Community in small groups and addressing justice issues (especially racial justice and human trafficking).
CLINICAL AREAS OF INTEREST
Among his clinical areas of expertise are
Anger Management
Anxiety
Career Stress and Changes
Children
Clinical Depression
Communication Skills
Couples/Relationships/Families
Employment Issues
Life Transitions
Pre-Marriage Counseling
Christian Counseling
Self Esteem/Personal Growth
Stress
Clinical Supervision/Coaching (Therapists and Therapist Supervisors)
Michael's areas of specialization in leadership development and life coaching include:
Strengths-based leadership
Teambuilding
Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator in team building and Professional development
Servant leadership
Innovative mission-focused growth
EDUCATION
Master of Arts, Counseling Psychology, California Baptist University, Riverside, California
Bachelor of Arts, Liberal Arts, San Francisco State University
Post-graduate coursework in theology
- Fuller Theological Seminary
- International School of Theology (Campus Crusade for Christ)
FOR THOSE WITH A CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW
Member, Order of the Mustard Seed (OrderoftheMustard.com)
Student at Dallas Willard School of Theology (https://dwillard.org/the-school-of-kingdom-living)
Missional Coordinator, Calvary Chapel Twin Peaks
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
Note: Michael Beavers, LMFT is practicing under the auspices of Strengths-based Family Therapy, PC, a California Corporation. He provides services through various mental health platforms and directly to clients.
Michael Beavers
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist