MICHAEL R. LUTE, PSY.D. - POWELL
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Dr. Michael Lute is a licensed Clinical Psychologist with 16 years of clinical experience providing individual, group, and couple’s therapy. Dr. Lute emphasizes that therapy is a collaboration in which the client comes equipped with their goals, passions, struggles, interests, and history, and the therapist brings clinical experience and expertise in psychotherapy and intervention. Together, the client and therapist work to establish a trusting relationship, and each contributes to work aimed at achieving the client’s goals. Dr. Lute’s clinical work is client-centered, relational, and integrative, incorporating evidence-based treatments including Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Cognitive-Behavioral (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Mindfulness-Based Interventions.
Dr. Lute comes to CWW after working for a number of years at Ohio State’s Counseling and Consultation Service. Prior to OSU he completed a Post-Doctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan and his Doctoral Internship at Penn State University. He received his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (Psy.D.) from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and received Masters degrees (MA) in Clinical Psychology from both Eastern Michigan University and Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He received his BA in Psychology from Wittenberg University, and he was born and raised in Toledo, OH.
Dr. Lute values the role that our identities play in how we experience the world, including how we experience therapy. He has been intentional in his work with diverse populations, including working in urban, suburban, and rural settings. His experiences at large universities involved working with clients from all over the world. Dr. Lute believes these experiences do not provide him with answers, but instead inform his empathy, questions, and hypotheses in therapy. Together, he will work with you to find the answers, interventions, and techniques that best fit your goals and preferences.
Dr. Lute identifies as a strong generalist, meaning he is equipped for supporting clients with a wide range of goals and treating a wide variety of diagnoses. His areas of specialization include relationships and relationship distress, family-of-origin concerns, couples therapy, trauma, grief and loss, mood and anxiety disorders, life transitions and adjustment, identity development, multicultural issues, and general emotional processing work.
Clinical Interest/Focus: Adult Behavioral Health, Relationships/Relationship Distress, Interpersonal Concerns, Family-of-Origin Concerns, Couples Therapy, Trauma, Grief and Loss, Mood & Anxiety Disorders, Life Transitions/Adjustment, Identity Development, LGBTQI+, Multicultural Issues, Clinical Supervision