Emotionally Focused Therapists in Grand Rapids, MI
Even though transitions are a part of all of our lives, they sometimes stir up old pain or are just too overwhelming to navigate without some help. You deserve the time and support to work through it and counseling can provide that for you. I believe in a person centered, interpersonal, cognitive behavioral and strengths based counseling approach. I have over 18 years of experience using these approaches working with individuals of all ages dealing with anxiety, depression, grief and loss, relationship issues, chronic illnesses and transitions at all stages of life.
Even though transitions are a part of all of our lives, they sometimes stir up old pain or are just too overwhelming to navigate without some help. You deserve the time and support to work through it and counseling can provide that for you. I believe in a person centered, interpersonal, cognitive behavioral and strengths based counseling approach. I have over 18 years of experience using these approaches working with individuals of all ages dealing with anxiety, depression, grief and loss, relationship issues, chronic illnesses and transitions at all stages of life.
Cynthia Cortez
Pre-Licensed Professional, MA, LLPC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
I believe that every person is unique and different. I strive to create a safe space where you will be treated with respect and kindness, feel validated, heard, and feel safe to be yourself regardless of age, gender, or race. I believe that counseling is a journey to better oneself at any point in life’s journey and not only during a crisis or through challenges. Whether it is shame, guilt, depression, anxiety, relationship issues, questioning your identity or trauma you are dealing with, know that change is possible.
I believe that every person is unique and different. I strive to create a safe space where you will be treated with respect and kindness, feel validated, heard, and feel safe to be yourself regardless of age, gender, or race. I believe that counseling is a journey to better oneself at any point in life’s journey and not only during a crisis or through challenges. Whether it is shame, guilt, depression, anxiety, relationship issues, questioning your identity or trauma you are dealing with, know that change is possible.
Gabrielle (Bee) Henriksen
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LLMSW
Verified Verified
Grand Rapids, MI 49546
Here's to you for making the first step in your healing process - that is no small feat! No matter where you are in your journey, I can provide you with the support you need to honor your emotions, understand and value your various identities, and rewrite your story to center joy, rest, and compassion. I am an out, proud, and unapologetically queer woman whose primary goal is to provide a collaborative, warm, and brave/r space for you to heal your authentic self. My foundation is built on trauma-informed and compassion-focused interventions, with an emphasis on systems’ impact on our wellbeing.
Here's to you for making the first step in your healing process - that is no small feat! No matter where you are in your journey, I can provide you with the support you need to honor your emotions, understand and value your various identities, and rewrite your story to center joy, rest, and compassion. I am an out, proud, and unapologetically queer woman whose primary goal is to provide a collaborative, warm, and brave/r space for you to heal your authentic self. My foundation is built on trauma-informed and compassion-focused interventions, with an emphasis on systems’ impact on our wellbeing.
Rachel Dziabuda
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LLMSW
Verified Verified
4 Endorsed
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Waitlist for new clients
Hello, I'm so happy you're here! As a queer therapist, my priority is fostering safety & trust within the therapeutic space. My goal is to create a comfortable space in which you feel safe to explore your worries, stressors or traumatic experiences. I use a person-centered therapeutic style and have experience with many different treatment models allowing for flexibility in the therapeutic process. Therapy with me can often involve swearing, crying, laughing, and engaging in the process in a way that gives you safety & security.
Hello, I'm so happy you're here! As a queer therapist, my priority is fostering safety & trust within the therapeutic space. My goal is to create a comfortable space in which you feel safe to explore your worries, stressors or traumatic experiences. I use a person-centered therapeutic style and have experience with many different treatment models allowing for flexibility in the therapeutic process. Therapy with me can often involve swearing, crying, laughing, and engaging in the process in a way that gives you safety & security.
Katie Gendron
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LMSW
Verified Verified
Grand Rapids, MI 49546
Waitlist for new clients
With 28 years of experience, helping others is not just my job; it is my nature. Life can be stressful at times, leaving you feeling overwhelmed and lost in your own thoughts. In my practice, you will find a warm and empathetic environment so you may share your feelings and your story. I offer coping skills, ways to understand your emotions, and help you find real solutions to daily problems. These tools can help to restore a sense of calm in your life and guide you in finding your way back to yourself.
With 28 years of experience, helping others is not just my job; it is my nature. Life can be stressful at times, leaving you feeling overwhelmed and lost in your own thoughts. In my practice, you will find a warm and empathetic environment so you may share your feelings and your story. I offer coping skills, ways to understand your emotions, and help you find real solutions to daily problems. These tools can help to restore a sense of calm in your life and guide you in finding your way back to yourself.
Olja Haglund
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LMSW, ACSW, CAADC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Grand Rapids, MI 49546
Every day has the potential to present us with unexpected challenges or difficult situations, and there is only so much we can do on our own before we feel the need to ask for support. Luckily, I can help. My name is Olja Haglund and I am a therapist serving Grand Rapids, MI helping clients to find hope, peace, opportunities for growth, and the chance to lead a more satisfying life. Whether you’re struggling with a specific mental health diagnosis or just grappling with day-to-day stressors, I welcome you to join me in finding relief from distress, discovering greater purpose, and fostering the most fulfilled version of yourself.
Every day has the potential to present us with unexpected challenges or difficult situations, and there is only so much we can do on our own before we feel the need to ask for support. Luckily, I can help. My name is Olja Haglund and I am a therapist serving Grand Rapids, MI helping clients to find hope, peace, opportunities for growth, and the chance to lead a more satisfying life. Whether you’re struggling with a specific mental health diagnosis or just grappling with day-to-day stressors, I welcome you to join me in finding relief from distress, discovering greater purpose, and fostering the most fulfilled version of yourself.
Vulnerability: while rewarding, can be daunting. It isn’t easy to let someone into your internal landscape and I value the possibility of learning yours. My name is Sam and I work with clients to become intimately comfortable with the buried and beautifully impactful aspects of themselves. Often, the relationship to yourself contributes to how your days unfold in the world around you. When was the last time you heard or nurtured the parts of yourself that long for you? In doing so, a gateway opens up to a sense of self-worth that will allow you to experience yourself and your environment with a new lens.
Vulnerability: while rewarding, can be daunting. It isn’t easy to let someone into your internal landscape and I value the possibility of learning yours. My name is Sam and I work with clients to become intimately comfortable with the buried and beautifully impactful aspects of themselves. Often, the relationship to yourself contributes to how your days unfold in the world around you. When was the last time you heard or nurtured the parts of yourself that long for you? In doing so, a gateway opens up to a sense of self-worth that will allow you to experience yourself and your environment with a new lens.
Steven Shane Edelman
Counselor, LPC, MAEAT
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Grand Rapids, MI 49507 (Online Only)
Within each session, there lies a story, an image, a horde of stories and images that infiltrate and energize our Waking and Dreaming Lives. With deep kindness, patient curiosity, and an artist’s heart, we can work together to speak these stories, to personify these clusters of energies and symptoms into forms and narratives less medical and much more Mythic. Through creativity, we can change our relationships with those inner forces, we can stop feeling our inner selves as “disordered” or “sick” and begin to glimpse and touch the unfathomable depths and riches buried just below the surface of our experiences. LGBTQ+ ally
Within each session, there lies a story, an image, a horde of stories and images that infiltrate and energize our Waking and Dreaming Lives. With deep kindness, patient curiosity, and an artist’s heart, we can work together to speak these stories, to personify these clusters of energies and symptoms into forms and narratives less medical and much more Mythic. Through creativity, we can change our relationships with those inner forces, we can stop feeling our inner selves as “disordered” or “sick” and begin to glimpse and touch the unfathomable depths and riches buried just below the surface of our experiences. LGBTQ+ ally
Clinical psychologist and director at Integral Psychological Services. Our multidisciplinary team provides counseling, medication management, psychological evaluations (including ADHD and Autism testing) and occupational therapy. Our clinicians specialize in several evidence-based therapies (e.g. cognitive-behavioral therapy, DBT, acceptance and commitment therapy, animal assisted therapy). Occupational Therapy for executive functioning, sensory/reflex integration, work/school based skills and more. Typically booking testing and counseling appointments within a few weeks.
Clinical psychologist and director at Integral Psychological Services. Our multidisciplinary team provides counseling, medication management, psychological evaluations (including ADHD and Autism testing) and occupational therapy. Our clinicians specialize in several evidence-based therapies (e.g. cognitive-behavioral therapy, DBT, acceptance and commitment therapy, animal assisted therapy). Occupational Therapy for executive functioning, sensory/reflex integration, work/school based skills and more. Typically booking testing and counseling appointments within a few weeks.
I am a clinical behavioral therapist with a private practice focusing mainly on children and families. For nearly 30 years, I have enjoyed working with children and using various play techniques to explore the lagging skills which have led to strong responses, behaviors and stressors to your family life. I am focusing more of my practice now on helping parents with their children to enable peace and calm in the home. I also enjoy working with teens and young adults dealing with stressors and anxieties about life developments.
I am a clinical behavioral therapist with a private practice focusing mainly on children and families. For nearly 30 years, I have enjoyed working with children and using various play techniques to explore the lagging skills which have led to strong responses, behaviors and stressors to your family life. I am focusing more of my practice now on helping parents with their children to enable peace and calm in the home. I also enjoy working with teens and young adults dealing with stressors and anxieties about life developments.
Impression Psychotherapy - Heather Nitzki
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, LMFT
Verified Verified
5 Endorsed
Grand Rapids, MI 49546
I believe that we all need safe, supportive relationships in order to not only survive, but to thrive. As a therapist, I aim to serve as that sense of stability amongst whatever chaos my clients may be feeling or facing. In our work, I won't tell you what to do or how to fix your problems - I wholeheartedly believe that you already hold those answers somewhere within you. With that being said, I do believe that it is fully my job to collaborate & explore with you, to bring you my honest experience & thoughts, and to work with you to help you uncover & find your own unique answers & truths that work best for you & for your healing.
I believe that we all need safe, supportive relationships in order to not only survive, but to thrive. As a therapist, I aim to serve as that sense of stability amongst whatever chaos my clients may be feeling or facing. In our work, I won't tell you what to do or how to fix your problems - I wholeheartedly believe that you already hold those answers somewhere within you. With that being said, I do believe that it is fully my job to collaborate & explore with you, to bring you my honest experience & thoughts, and to work with you to help you uncover & find your own unique answers & truths that work best for you & for your healing.
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Hello! I’m a licensed clinical social worker and I have worked in school social work, foster care, adoption, adolescent residential treatment, crisis assessment at Pine Rest Hospital, and outpatient treatment. I have been in private practice for 20 years. It is my privilege to listen to, and be with, people in their stories. Making sense of our narrative is a fundamental component to a healthy mind and spirit. And making peace with our perfectly imperfect, and unique version of humanity is essential for our emotional life and our thought space. It would be my privilege to hear your story. Peace, Amy
Hello! I’m a licensed clinical social worker and I have worked in school social work, foster care, adoption, adolescent residential treatment, crisis assessment at Pine Rest Hospital, and outpatient treatment. I have been in private practice for 20 years. It is my privilege to listen to, and be with, people in their stories. Making sense of our narrative is a fundamental component to a healthy mind and spirit. And making peace with our perfectly imperfect, and unique version of humanity is essential for our emotional life and our thought space. It would be my privilege to hear your story. Peace, Amy
Hello and welcome! I'm Jason, a dedicated and passionate mental health professional who fervently desires to support you on your path to well-being and personal growth. My journey in the field of mental health began with a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from CMU, which provided me with a strong foundation in understanding the complexities of human behavior and thought processes. Driven by a deeper commitment to helping individuals, I pursued a Master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. This advanced training has equipped me with the skills and knowledge to assist those facing a wide range of challenges effectively.
Hello and welcome! I'm Jason, a dedicated and passionate mental health professional who fervently desires to support you on your path to well-being and personal growth. My journey in the field of mental health began with a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from CMU, which provided me with a strong foundation in understanding the complexities of human behavior and thought processes. Driven by a deeper commitment to helping individuals, I pursued a Master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. This advanced training has equipped me with the skills and knowledge to assist those facing a wide range of challenges effectively.
Loneliness, fear, and worry are powerful feelings that can keep us disconnected from those around us. You might notice yourself thinking “things have to change” or “I can’t do this anymore.” Perhaps you feel like you’ve tried everything and are exhausted from the effort; you’ve tried to talk to others but walk away feeling misunderstood and lonely. It could even be that the fear of sharing your story and experiences feels overwhelming. Counseling is an opportunity to experience the opposite; it’s a space to connect with someone who listens without judgment or distraction.
Loneliness, fear, and worry are powerful feelings that can keep us disconnected from those around us. You might notice yourself thinking “things have to change” or “I can’t do this anymore.” Perhaps you feel like you’ve tried everything and are exhausted from the effort; you’ve tried to talk to others but walk away feeling misunderstood and lonely. It could even be that the fear of sharing your story and experiences feels overwhelming. Counseling is an opportunity to experience the opposite; it’s a space to connect with someone who listens without judgment or distraction.
616 Center for Counseling & Behavioral Health
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LMSW
Verified Verified
Grand Rapids, MI 49506
Practicing since 2005, I work with children and teens, families and individuals and specialize in trauma, attachment, behavioral issues, children's mental health, relationship issues and transitions with the family life cycle. I assess clients and their presenting concerns with a welcoming, non-judgmental , solution-focused approach. My client-centered manner empowers the individual to realize strengths and assets available to them and how to compensate for and overcome identified barriers.
Practicing since 2005, I work with children and teens, families and individuals and specialize in trauma, attachment, behavioral issues, children's mental health, relationship issues and transitions with the family life cycle. I assess clients and their presenting concerns with a welcoming, non-judgmental , solution-focused approach. My client-centered manner empowers the individual to realize strengths and assets available to them and how to compensate for and overcome identified barriers.
My mission is to provide evidence-based mental health services, education and advocacy in an integrative and holistic way (Biopsychosocial and spiritual) in order to bring about healing and transformation in individuals, families and communities. My career emphasis is on anxiety, depression, substance abuse issues, sexual addictions, sexual trauma, co-occurring disorders, and mid-life issues. I am a cross-culturally competent counselor who highly values and respects cultural differences. I am also committed to life-long learning and being able to make sound ethical decisions within diverse cultural contexts.
My mission is to provide evidence-based mental health services, education and advocacy in an integrative and holistic way (Biopsychosocial and spiritual) in order to bring about healing and transformation in individuals, families and communities. My career emphasis is on anxiety, depression, substance abuse issues, sexual addictions, sexual trauma, co-occurring disorders, and mid-life issues. I am a cross-culturally competent counselor who highly values and respects cultural differences. I am also committed to life-long learning and being able to make sound ethical decisions within diverse cultural contexts.
Tracy Thompson is the owner of the Family Therapy Place, and is a Licensed Professional Counselor. Tracy specializes in working with children and families who have discovered that life can be a tough journey. Tracy’s training and speciality is with children who have experienced developmental trauma, often due to neglect or abuse. Tracy has a strong belief and training in the experiences of attachment and works with families to rebuild and nurture attachments when they have been broken. Tracy also works with adult families that are working to manage and resolve conflict that has surfaced or created separation within the family.
Tracy Thompson is the owner of the Family Therapy Place, and is a Licensed Professional Counselor. Tracy specializes in working with children and families who have discovered that life can be a tough journey. Tracy’s training and speciality is with children who have experienced developmental trauma, often due to neglect or abuse. Tracy has a strong belief and training in the experiences of attachment and works with families to rebuild and nurture attachments when they have been broken. Tracy also works with adult families that are working to manage and resolve conflict that has surfaced or created separation within the family.
Victoria Fisher
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LMSW
Verified Verified
Grand Rapids, MI 49504 (Online Only)
You may be navigating the complexities of ADHD or autism, struggling with body image or disordered eating, or exploring your identity as part of the LGBTQ+ community. You want to feel understood, not judged, and are seeking support tailored to your unique experiences. Your goal might be to cultivate self-acceptance, manage overwhelm, or build a healthier relationship with food and your body. You’re ready to take the next step toward a life where you feel empowered, balanced, and affirmed in who you truly are.
You may be navigating the complexities of ADHD or autism, struggling with body image or disordered eating, or exploring your identity as part of the LGBTQ+ community. You want to feel understood, not judged, and are seeking support tailored to your unique experiences. Your goal might be to cultivate self-acceptance, manage overwhelm, or build a healthier relationship with food and your body. You’re ready to take the next step toward a life where you feel empowered, balanced, and affirmed in who you truly are.
Are you feeling overwhelmed by life's challenges? Do you find yourself struggling to navigate through emotions or situations that seem insurmountable? You don't have to face these obstacles alone. Welcome to a safe haven where healing begins, where every step forward is supported with empathy, understanding, and expertise. I'm Christina, an LLPC dedicated to helping individuals like you rediscover strength, resilience, and inner peace. With a belief in the uniqueness of every individual, I approach therapy with an eclectic blend of modalities tailored to meet your specific needs and honor your unique background.
Are you feeling overwhelmed by life's challenges? Do you find yourself struggling to navigate through emotions or situations that seem insurmountable? You don't have to face these obstacles alone. Welcome to a safe haven where healing begins, where every step forward is supported with empathy, understanding, and expertise. I'm Christina, an LLPC dedicated to helping individuals like you rediscover strength, resilience, and inner peace. With a belief in the uniqueness of every individual, I approach therapy with an eclectic blend of modalities tailored to meet your specific needs and honor your unique background.
Deena Iris Cantu
Licensed Professional Counselor, LLP, LPC
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Grand Rapids, MI 49504
I work well with clients seeking help for problems with anxiety and depression. Those referred to me with these issues find that symptomatically they are struggling with panic, sleep disturbances, worry thoughts, self-defeating thoughts/behaviors, eating disorders,addictions and unknowingly, at times, some of their difficulties have been attached to old trauma. Many people with these sorts of struggles find that this spills over into problems with relationships and/or functioning at work and school. Areas of intimacy, both emotional and sexual are important work also. I work with individuals, married couples,families, and groups.
I work well with clients seeking help for problems with anxiety and depression. Those referred to me with these issues find that symptomatically they are struggling with panic, sleep disturbances, worry thoughts, self-defeating thoughts/behaviors, eating disorders,addictions and unknowingly, at times, some of their difficulties have been attached to old trauma. Many people with these sorts of struggles find that this spills over into problems with relationships and/or functioning at work and school. Areas of intimacy, both emotional and sexual are important work also. I work with individuals, married couples,families, and groups.
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