The Episcopal Counseling Center

Michael J. Story, MA, NCC MichaelS@ecc1021.com Main Office Orlando, Maitland, Titusville  National Certified Counselor #52115  Mental Health Counselor #6610

     Mike is a native (5^th generation) Floridian living in Orlando and has traveled and lived overseas 19 of the 24 years he was in the Navy.  During his career in the Navy he began his counseling experience as a Career Counselor, and as a Casualty Assistance Calls Officer in 1979 with the Navy, Red Cross, and the Navy and Marine Corp Relief Society.  In 1991 he served as an instructor for deputies and civilians with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office and was certified as a Victim Services Practitioner.  Mike completed his internship at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and Families in the Sexual Trauma Recovery Center, and became a Critical Incident Stress Management & Debriefing Team Mental Health Counselor for the Sheriff.  For two years, Mike was the Program Director for 36 boys in a residential foster care at Project Phoenix.  He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of West Florida in 1990 and a Master of Arts in Mental health counseling in 1997 from the University of Central.

In January 2004, Mike joined the Episcopal Counseling Center.  He gives excellent presentations and seminars in Stress Awareness, Human Diversity, Stress recognition & Reduction, Domestic Violence, Critical Incidents and Workplace Violence.

In counseling, Mike believes it is necessary to address emotional and physical needs as well as spiritual needs, believing that life’s most difficult problems can become opportunities for personal growth and finding God’s peace and joy in our lives.  He  provides individual, couples, marriage and family counseling with an emphasis on stress, chronic tension, critical incidents, grief and loss, death and dying, unhealthy relationships, domestic violence, codependent behaviors, anxiety attacks, prolonged depression and feelings of hopelessness, and children who are violent, depressed and/or running away.