Dr. Michaela Hammer, LCSW

Dr. Michaela Hammer is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Florida and New Mexico with 35 years of practice. She focuses on relationship concerns, grief, depression, anxiety, stress, ADHD, trauma and abuse, parenting, intimacy issues, and life changes.

She works with people facing transitions that affect family, work and community roles. She talks through common myths about aging, memory loss and mood changes and separates those myths from facts people can use. She offers counseling for pet grief and loss and recognizes that losing a beloved animal can be deeply painful and often misunderstood.

With long experience in many settings, she has provided therapy in offices, homes, schools, retirement communities, nursing homes and hospitals. She has set up memory clinics and performed routine depression and anxiety assessments. She also provides in-service instruction on cultural awareness and aging concerns.

Dr. Hammer offers memory loss and cognitive functioning assessments and explains that not all memory loss is permanent. She shares research and resources alongside assessment results and helps people look for further answers rather than simply handing down a label.

Her background includes decades of work with diverse races, religions, socioeconomic and educational groups. She draws on life experience to talk about how actions ripple into many areas of life. Her approach is practical and straightforward, aimed at helping people manage real day-to-day problems and plan next steps.

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