About Gwendolyn
Gwendolyn Henry is a licensed master social worker with 27 years of clinical experience in Michigan. She draws on long experience to help people who are dealing with anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, grief, and life transitions. She meets each person where they are and focuses on practical steps that make daily life easier.
Her sessions are built around listening first, then working together to set small, achievable goals. Gwendolyn uses clear, problem-focused conversations to address sleep problems, anger, addictions, and relationship stress.
Background and approach
She also helps clients navigate parenting strain, career challenges, and compassion fatigue. Her background includes work with adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, caregiver stress, and end-of-life counseling. She also has experience supporting people facing family of origin wounds, abandonment, and forgiveness struggles.
That breadth of experience shapes a flexible approach in session. Gwendolyn uses several therapeutic methods depending on the need. She draws from client-centered techniques to center the person, cognitive behavioral strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and EMDR for trauma processing when appropriate.
Mindfulness and narrative work often appear alongside these methods to strengthen coping and self-understanding. Sessions are offered in English and delivered remotely by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Her practice remembers that progress is a step-by-step process and aims to help people build sustainable skills for daily life.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered work focuses on the person's experience and priorities. In practice this means the therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people set goals that matter to them. This approach supports a wide range of concerns, from anxiety to caregiving stress.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. Sessions include identifying unhelpful thought patterns and trying short experiments to change reactions. That makes CBT useful for anxiety, sleep issues, mood, and anger management.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, often called EMDR, is a structured method for processing traumatic memories. When appropriate, she may use EMDR techniques to help reduce the intensity of traumatic reactions and improve daily functioning.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try methods that fit the client's needs, and adjust as progress is made. Clients help set goals and decide what feels most helpful at each stage.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, coping prompts, or shorter sessions that fit a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and work on skills in everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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