ABOUT MICHAEL

Michael Halyard is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. He has been working in the mental health field since 1990 and has been practicing psychotherapy since 1993. He has worked and interned at a number of Bay Area schools, hospitals, and clinics, including Marin Community Mental Health, Dixie Elementary School, San Leandro Community Counseling, Family Service Mid-Peninsula, Fremont Hospital, Billy DeFrank Community Center, Nailah Family Services, and Family Service Agency - San Francisco.

He has worked with clients from diverse backgrounds and ages, sexual orientations, and is culturally sensitive and competent. He is adept at helping people with a broad range of problems and diagnoses. Some of his clinical areas of focus include relationships, chemical dependency recovery, compulsive gambling, sex addiction, coping with chronic illness, anxiety disorders, and depression. He has also been involved in starting up counseling programs. Michael holds a Masters of Science degree in Clinical Psychology from San Francisco State University (1995).

He was recognized as one of America's Top Mental Health Professionals in 2006 by Consumer's Research Council of America, and is a member of Who's Who. Michael is available for television, radio, and print interviews on issues of mental health, chemical dependency recovery, compulsive gambling, foster care, coping with chronic illness, and LGBT mental health.

Michael T. Halyard, MS, MFT
Individual & Couple Psychotherapy
(415) 642-4662

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