Michael Burbano, LCPC (he/him)

Hello! I’m Mike, a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor. As a Latine cis male clinician, I’m deeply aware of the barriers many BIPOC, immigrant, and male identifying individuals face when seeking mental health support. The space we create together is meant to feel safe, affirming, and welcoming of all parts of who you are, your story, your background, your relationships, and your identity.

I specialize in attachment focused and trauma informed therapy for adolescents, young adults, and couples who want to feel more connected to themselves and to the people they love. Many of the clients I work with feel stuck in patterns of overthinking, self doubt, emotional distance, or recurring relationship and life challenges. Together, we slow down and explore how your early experiences, relationships, and life transitions have shaped the ways you connect, protect yourself, and move through the world today.

Our upbringing often teaches us powerful lessons about love, safety, conflict, and belonging. Sometimes we carry these lessons into adulthood without realizing they may no longer reflect who we are or how we want to live. Therapy becomes a place to gently examine those inherited messages and ask, what do I want to keep and what do I want to change? This work helps you step more fully into your values and build a life that feels aligned and intentional.

I help clients understand how attachment wounds and past experiences can show up in present day relationships. Many protective strategies that once helped us survive, like shutting down, distancing, people pleasing, or dissociating, can begin to interfere with intimacy later in life. Using attachment based therapy and parts work, we explore the protective parts of you that developed for good reason and help them update their roles so you can move toward connection rather than away from it.

In couples and relationship work, I support partners in creating safety so they can express needs, desires, and resentments in ways that deepen connection instead of widening distance. Often, relationship conflict grows from assumptions, mind reading, and missed bids for connection. Our work focuses on slowing down these moments, exploring what is assumed versus what is actually happening, and building communication that helps partners feel seen, heard, and valued. Over time, we create a shared relationship map that helps you move toward each other with curiosity and clarity. Intimacy grows when we allow ourselves to be truly known, what I like to think of as into-me-see.

I especially enjoy working with adolescents and young adults as they navigate identity development, life transitions, school, work, friendships, and romance. This stage of life holds incredible possibility, but it can also bring anxiety, uncertainty, and pressure. Together, we explore who you are becoming and help you build confidence, direction, and a stronger sense of belonging.

Specialties

- Depression/Anxiety 

- Adolescents, Young Adults, Adults

- Intergeneration and Racial Trauma

- Culture Related Family Dynamics

- Queerness, Gender, Sexual Identity Exploration

- Queer and Polyamorous Relationships

- Couples, Marriage, Polycule 

- Complex PTSD

- Navigating Hardship and Life Transitions

- Grief and Loss

- Communication Skills

- Work-Life Balance

- Stress and Burnout

- Overthinking 

In-Network Insurances:

Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO, Aetna PPO

Out of Network Billing /Superbill Available

Do not accept United Healthcare