Mental Health Counselor in Washtenaw County

My name is Katie. I specialize in working with individual men and women dealing with mental health challenges, relationship conflict, feeling stuck or depressed, past and childhood trauma, and navigating life transitions and losses. I help clients to address areas of their lives they want to work on and create a roadmap to happiness and success by learning skills for self-care, skills in relationships, life skills, and moving past trauma. Clients are able to learn specific life skills from DBT, mindfulness (staying in the present moment), and learning to identify their thoughts and create better ones. Therapy can help you overcome anxiety, depression, improve self-esteem, gain confidence, and identify and reach your goals.

I help clients to address areas of their relationship causing conflict. Clients most often come to therapy as a last effort to save their relationship or that the issues causing conflict have become unbearable. I use techniques from Imago therapy as well as DBT to help clients gain empathy and compassion for one another, take responsibility for their part of the conflict, learn about themselves and be able to identify if and how their personal goals are aligned. Clients will get clarity on what the best actions are for them and their relationship and gain the confidence to put that in place.

Clients: Adults
Specialties: Anxiety, Depression, PTSD and C-PTSD, Relationship Issues, Women's and Men's Issues

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