Adults Therapists in Saline, MI

Are you feeling anxious, depressed or deeply unhappy with yourself or aspects of your life? Do you want to change but find yourself stuck in painful, unproductive patterns? Therapy can help. Drawing on my extensive training and experience, I can offer you an approach to therapy that is flexibly tailored to your unique personality and concerns. We can work together to help you achieve significant and lasting changes in your life.

I can help you with specific problems in your life, but I also want you to feel more satisfied and engaged overall in your work and relationships, and more comfortable in your own skin. We can work together on what gets in the way of leading the more vital, connected, and productive life you want. I will create a space for us to safely and productively explore together, where any thoughts and feelings are welcomed. Within this space, I will actively listen, provide my ideas and understandings, and help you to develop useful understandings of yourself as well.

**Currently I am not taking new clients** I focus on the client's strengths to help cope with the challenges that life brings. I take a behavioral approach to understanding ourselves, our relationships, and how change is possible. Working with parents and families to bring understanding and skills of how to make our relationships stronger and more functional day to day.

Many of us reach a point when we need help and support in order to change old patterns or work through difficult issues. My goal as a therapist is to help adolescents, adults, and couples gain a deeper understanding of their feelings, thoughts, behaviors, and relationship patterns so they are better able to live more satisfying and deliberate lives. I help clients do this by working with them to connect the things that have shaped them, such as their family and social relationships, the way they think about themselves and others, as well as their attachment and trauma experiences, to their current issues and life situations.

Karlin Stern is a licensed clinical social worker providing evidence-based treatment in the state of Michigan. Her training has included working with children, adolescents, and young adults experiencing emotional and behavioral concerns such as ADHD, anger, anxiety, depression, trauma, and grief. Karlin also works closely with caregivers to provide assistance in managing stress, improving emotional regulation skills, better understand their child’s needs, and support the parent-child relationship. Karlin received her training at the University of Michigan School of Social Work and Michigan Medicine Department of Psychiatry.

Finding a therapist who you can connect with is so important. Whether or not that person is me, I want you to know that healing is possible. Therapy can provide a new framework for relating to yourself with increased compassion, acceptance, and curiosity. I strive to cultivate an environment of trust, collaboration, nonjudgment, and exploration. Nobody wants to feel pain, yet oftentimes the strategies we come up with to avoid it lose their utility over time and cause more suffering. Therapy isn’t about getting rid of pain but learning to tolerate it so we’re able to experience the full spectrum of emotions.

Perhaps there is no more healing, sustaining and enriching experience in life than one given by the opportunity to understand oneself and others. Psychotherapy is uniquely suited to provide this experience. It's a place where difficulties can be explored both safely and meaningfully. One's problems might emerge during a personal crisis; or perhaps, one's problems have become clear only over time. In either case, a successful psychotherapy can bring vitality, better connections to others and success in achieving one's life goals.

Since 1977 I"ve worked as a therapist with Individuals,Couples and Families. I have found that people usually come to therapy because of some pattern of internal pain or difficulties within their relationships or daily lives. Often this pain involves feelings of: anxiety, sadness or depression, loneliness, grief, stress, frustration or anger, as well as behaviors that at times are ineffective, self-sabatoging or addictive in nature. I work in a respectful, confidential, compassionate, and collaborative way. I am professional, very direct and honest, while honoring your feelings and values.

I am on extended leave and unable to accept new clients at this time.

I am Jennifer Heckendorn, LMSW. I have shifted my previous work from mood disorders, life transitions, and care partner stress to solely working with clients experiencing grief. I provide short term grief therapy to clients of all ages.

Not accepting new clients currently. Real recovery from psychosis is possible. Are you looking for an understanding of unusual experience that promotes healing? Do you want to recover agency and direction in your life? Dialogic practice aims to listen carefully, accepting and exploring differences, so people with alternate views are truly heard and taken seriously. We don’t view negative feelings as a disorder, but as essential guideposts to greater understanding. I agree with Dan Fisher, MD, PhD, a psychiatrist recovered from ‘schizophrenia’, who says medications alone may buy you time, but they rarely solve your problems - you do.

I designed my website, howarderman.com, for people considering psychotherapy and I think my mini-essay, Thoughts on How to Choose a Therapist, will help you even if you end up working with someone else. My own style is relaxed, engaged, sensitive and thoughtful as we explore current problems and underlying issues. I believe if our self-understanding is limited, we keep defeating ourselves in our actions, like being stuck in a hole and trying to dig our way out when that is the only action certain to get us in even deeper. With insight, support, and hard work, change begins.

Anne graduated from Western Michigan University with a Bachelor of Social Work and earned her master's in social work from the University of Michigan. Anne is a certified trauma specialist from the National Institute of Trauma and Loss in Children (TLC) and uses TLC's Structured Sensory Interventions for Traumatized Children, Adolescents and Parents (SITCAP). Anne is also trained in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) - a psychotherapy approach that focuses on both the child and the parent. Anne has a passion for working with children and families that have been impacted by trauma, grief, and loss.

March 1, 2021: I am currently not taking new patients. I am fully-licensed psychologist trained at the University of Michigan and the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. I offer psychodynamic psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, supervision, parent guidance, and personality testing. If you have struggled with long-standing difficulties but only found temporary help, psychodynamic therapy or psychoanalysis could be very helpful to you.

[Please note: my practice is currently full.] Do you spend too much of your time feeling sad or worried? Are you lonely, or do you often find yourself struggling in your relationships? Are you concerned that you aren't reaching your potential at school or in your career? Do hurts and disappointments from the past continue to bother you? As a therapist, I work to help people address specific problems as well as the underlying causes of their difficulties. Psychotherapy, in my experience, is a collaborative process that can lead to self-awareness and to lasting freedom from chronic unhappiness.

Do you find yourself trapped in a cycle of relentless thoughts and memories, unable to break free? Is happiness slipping through your fingers, overshadowed by feelings of guilt or emptiness? Perhaps you're burdened by the pressure to constantly move forward or to control every aspect of your life. You have the power to reclaim control over your life and steer it toward a more positive direction. Through guided support and personalized strategies, you can break free from limiting beliefs and embrace a life filled with joy, purpose, and contentment. Allow me the opportunity to guide you towards reclaiming your happiness.

Life presents each of us with a rich tapestry of joys and sorrows, successes and failures, hills and valleys. Perhaps you have recently encountered a hardship in your life. Maybe you are surrounded with the trappings of a "successful" life, yet deep down, you still feel unhappy. You might feel pulled in all directions by the demands associated with each of your roles in life (e.g. spouse, sibling, child, co-worker, friend, etc.) You may find yourself overspending, working too much, or engaging in other self-defeating habits. Being a human being is hard work. None of us are meant to travel the complex road of life by ourselves.

Do you feel as though life has been full of struggles? Did you experience a loss or something stressful that you can’t seem to move past? Do you possibly feel like you lost touch with who you really are? Fear, or mistrust may be familiar and limiting. You may relate to physical pain, fatigue, or tension. Perhaps your strategies for managing help but lack the shift you are longing for. I create a space to feel safe enough reclaiming your capabilities. I welcome diversity including all body sizes, races, cultures, sexualities, and genders.