Michael Entrekin, LPC, LAC · Pennsylvania, New Jersey & South Carolina
Your mind shapes everything you feel, everything you choose, everything you become. Fill it with what is good.
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Research is unambiguous: the single greatest predictor of therapeutic outcomes is the relationship between therapist and client. Not the modality, not the technique — the relationship. Every session is built on that foundation.
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Sustainable change requires tracing the historical roots of present struggles. Treating symptoms without understanding origins is like mowing over weeds. We go deeper.
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What occupies your thoughts shapes your experience of reality. Better thinking — honest, grounded, compassionate — is not a byproduct of therapy. It is the goal.
“In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.”
Albert Bandura
I am a Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania, a Licensed Associate Counselor in New Jersey, and licensed in South Carolina — with a background that spans private practice, school counseling, and the classroom.
That range matters. It means I understand the full arc of human development, not just the clinical slice. Anxiety looks different in a teenager than it does in a parent. Grief is shaped by the life that surrounds it. I bring that breadth to every session.
Every session covers three essential movements — past, present, and forward.
Identifying where present struggles began — the formative experiences, attachment patterns, and narratives that became default operating systems.
Assessing what is actually impaired right now — work, relationships, physical health, thought patterns — and naming it clearly.
Building real distress tolerance and resilience through strategies that can be practiced — not just understood — between sessions.
“The relational answer to who’s right or who’s wrong is who cares?”
Terry Real
I’ve never had therapy that was this impactful.
— Ted
Therapy with you has been life-changing. I’m not the same person I was.
— Nick
My anxiety is reduced, I have greater confidence, and I don’t talk to myself like I used to. I feel healthier.
— Jess
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
Viktor Frankl
Beyond the office,
a full life informs
the work.
I teach psychology as an adjunct professor at Camden County College, bringing the science of mind and behavior to the next generation of students. The classroom and the counseling office inform each other constantly.
Family is the center of everything. The relationships I hold most closely are also my greatest teachers — in patience, presence, and what it means to show up for the people you love.
Guitar has been a companion of mine for years. Learning an instrument mirrors therapeutic work — the discipline of practice, the reward of presence, the humility of always having more to learn.
Running is where a lot of my thinking happens. Miles logged alone with nothing but breath and pavement have a way of clarifying what matters — and burning off whatever doesn’t.
There is a certain freedom I find in motion — whether carving a trail on my One Wheel or heading off-road in my Jeep. Some of my best thinking happens away from screens and schedules.
A full life makes a better counselor. Everything I carry into the room — the questions, the joy, the struggle — is in service of understanding yours.
