About Katherine
Katherine Pettit is a licensed master social worker (LMSW) based in Michigan who focuses on anxiety and related concerns. She frames therapy around each person's goals and strengths, offering straightforward support for stress, depression, addictions, and life changes. Katherine draws on approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy to address anxious thinking and motivation-focused methods to help people make changes.
She also uses client-centered and attachment-informed perspectives to build a working relationship that reflects each person's values.
Background and approach
Her work commonly covers substance use and co-occurring concerns, including relapse prevention and drug and alcohol addiction. She also helps people struggling with self-esteem, body image, grief, and isolation or loneliness. Sessions move at the client’s pace and focus on practical steps.
That can mean setting small goals, testing new behaviors between sessions, and talking through difficult memories when needed. Katherine emphasizes empowerment and self-determination in planning that work. People come for help with sleep problems, anger, ADHD, social anxiety and phobia, and intimacy-related issues.
She supports those coping with trauma and post-traumatic stress as part of broader recovery work. Katherine has six years of experience as an LMSW and offers help through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. She speaks English and provides care to people located in Michigan.
How Katherine’s Approaches Work Online
Katherine often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. CBT can be useful for anxious thinking, sleep problems, social anxiety, and low mood. She also works from a client-centered perspective that prioritizes the person’s priorities and pace, listening closely and helping people set goals that fit their life.When motivation to change is a barrier, she uses motivational interviewing techniques to explore ambivalence and build readiness for concrete steps. Those methods pair well with solution-focused work that narrows attention to small, achievable changes between sessions. Together these approaches aim to produce steady progress without overwhelming the person.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Katherine checks in about what feels useful and adapts methods to match each person's goals, values, and preferences. She makes treatment plans with the individual rather than imposing a fixed path.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text are helpful for short check-ins, tracking progress, or sending brief tools between sessions. These options make it easier to fit regular work on anxiety and recovery into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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