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Telephone sessions offered by Dr. Michael are essentially the same as face-to-face in office visits other than client’s converse with Dr. Michael by telephone. Private, confidential and accommodating your schedule, telephone sessions can be arranged at a time convenient for you.

Perhaps you’re a bit hesitant over the effectiveness of telephone counseling and have some questions about it. That’s certainly understandable, yet be assured the results achieved from Dr. Michael's many years of telephone sessions have proven to be every bit as effective as those achieved in his office sessions.

Numerous studies have also found telephone counseling to be very effective and clearly beneficial, with multiple sessions being most helpful. Unsurprisingly, many people actually prefer telephone consultation to face-to-face visits, finding distance phone sessions to be a less embarrassing and more comfortable way to discuss their private sexual and relationship concerns. Phone sessions are also a convenient supplement to face-to-face meetings when time or distance is a factor. Dr. Michael has been a phone counseling pioneer for over thirty years, beginning with the New Orleans Crisis Line in 1981. Since then, he has been offering aid and comfort to thousands of clients worldwide. From his Hawaii-based private practice, he devotes his major time to providing discreet and confidential treatment to clients locally, nationally, and internationally via local office visits and global telephone counseling distance sessions.

Dr. Michael is also available for worldwide travel to clients seeking intensive face-to-face treatment within the privacy and comfort of their home. Dr. Michael specializes in providing accelerated and completely confidential treatment to celebrities and high-profile individuals. Please call for details.

Telephone session lengths are the same as in office visit lengths that are either 50 or 80 minutes in duration. Local clients meet with Dr. Michael weekly at his Hilo-side office. Distance clients call Dr. Michael at their appointment time once weekly. Expedited sessions are also available for those wanting longer sessions or desiring multiple weekly sessions for quicker results.

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is a theory of personality and system of psychological training and treatment that emphasizes the role of unrealistic expectations and irrational beliefs. REBT is based upon the precept that emotions follow from our thoughts and judgments about people and events, and not from people or events themselves. REBT seeks to address disturbances caused by false and distorted beliefs towards overcoming the predisposition towards faulty thinking. As a skilled and seasoned REBT counseling expert, you can trust discussing your most private matters frankly and openly with Dr. Michael.

Specializing as an REBT clinician, Dr. Michael utilizes only the most effective and proven approaches to counseling. From 1991-95, Dr. Michael perfected his REBT clinical skills in his Manhattan private practice. During this same period he was also a student and counseling client of the eminent sexologist, world renowned psychologist, and acknowledged "father" of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, the late Dr. Albert Ellis. As a care giver today, Dr. Michael continues to embrace the philosophy of empowering his clients to consciously live at cause in their life so as to bring about more of what is wanted and less of what is not.

Dr. Michael respects and works with each client’s individual
values and does not discriminate against anyone. He is committed
to providing excellence in every client session, whether meeting
face-to-face, via telephone or online.

Know Your Therapist

As a board certified clinical counseling sexologist in private practice for over 25 years, Dr. Michael Ra Bouchard has frequently heard clients speak about difficulties in locating a trained and talented counselor to help with their sensitive sexual concerns and private relationship problems. With all the talk and attention given to sex and relationships today, one might expect that a professionally qualified "sexdoc” would be about as common as your neighborhood corner convenience store.

Dr. Michael is a Doctor of Human Sexuality, holding both a Ph.D. in human sexuality and a Master of Arts in clinical counseling psychology. He specializes in all matters of sexuality, intimacy, and relationship counseling. Surprisingly, there are at most only a couple of thousand professionally trained and board-certified sexologists in the entire world, with the vast majority of them working in a multitude of disciplines outside of the counseling field. As for the handful of sexologists specializing in sex therapy and relationship counseling, even fewer in number are the tiny minority of us possessing both an advanced counseling psychology degree and an advanced sexological degree. Apparently, we "full pedigree" counselor-sexologists are spread rather sparsely around the planet!

Dr. Michael is a practicing clinician, sex researcher, graduate school professor of human sexuality and counseling psychology, author and expert in the respective fields of sexology and relationship counseling. His therapeutic focus is always results-oriented and applicable to everyday living in the here and now. Dr. Michael's candid one-of-a-kind thought provoking style teaches and assists clients to recognize and reframe their thinking errors and cognitive distortions of perception.

Nothing replaces a face-to-face visit with your doctor. While it would be ideal to meet together in Dr. Michael's office, for anyone outside of Hawai'i, this could prove expensive and impractical. If you're local or planning on visiting the Hawaiian Islands, by all means call to make an office appointment. For everyone else, be assured Dr. Michael’s nearly three decades of work by telephone and over 15 years online reflect every bit as much of the same care, concern, and effectiveness as his face-to-face consultations.

When it comes to such important matters as your personal sexuality and intimate relationships, it’s essential to know that you’re working with an accomplished, skilled, and seasoned clinician you can trust. Whether you seek telephone counseling or online consultations individually or as a couple, Dr. Michael will assist you in a safe, relaxed, and open environment. You can depend on receiving competent, confidential care and above all, informed and effective results-oriented treatment.

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How May I Help You?

* Sexual orientation confusion and concerns (including gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender coming out issues)

* Vaginismus (involuntary spasming of the vaginal musculature) and Dyspareunia (painful intercourse)

* Premature ejaculation (PE), how to last longer (including lasting as long as you want), and how to have multiple orgasms (any man can).

Telephone Sessions Available Worldwide DrMichael@lovekindly.com phone: 808.965.8800

Telephone Sessions Available Worldwide
DrMichael@lovekindly.com
phone: 808.965.8800