Dr. Michaela Hammer, LCSW

Dr. Michaela Hammer is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 35 years of practice in Florida. She focuses on relationship struggles, grief, depression, anxiety, anger, life transitions, and related concerns that often arrive with change. She works with adults across many life stages and brings long experience supporting people through hard moments.

She emphasizes separating myths about aging and transitions from the facts that matter. That includes memory loss and cognitive concerns; she performs memory and cognitive functioning assessments and reviews research and resources with clients. She also offers counseling for pet grief and loss, a service she developed after receiving referrals from veterinarians and physicians.

Her approach is practical and person-focused. She uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow what matters most to each person, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot patterns that fuel distress, and Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy to set realistic goals and steps. She also draws on Trauma-Focused Therapy when past events affect current functioning.

For decades she has provided counseling in offices, homes, schools, nursing homes, and hospitals. That experience includes running memory clinics and providing depression and anxiety assessments. She has offered in-service training on cultural awareness and aging issues to professionals and organizations.

Dr. Hammer describes herself as a seasoned clinician who knows how life’s reactions can compound over time. She supports people who want practical tools, clearer information, and help mapping the next steps when relationships, grief, memory, or major life changes become overwhelming.

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