About Kristen
Kristen Gennety is a Licensed Master Social Worker with four years of clinical experience in Michigan. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or life changes. Kristen aims to make the first step easier by offering a calm, straightforward approach to starting therapy.
She uses practical methods that fit each person's strengths and needs. Sessions focus on building skills to manage anxious thoughts, cope with grief, and handle relationship or family tensions.
Background and approach
Kristen often draws on mindfulness and behavior-focused tools to help people notice patterns and choose different responses. Kristen values a warm, nonjudgmental atmosphere and believes humor and personal strengths matter in the work. She talks with clients about what is realistic and useful in day-to-day life.
The goal is steady, manageable change rather than sudden fixes. Her work includes attention to attachment and relationship patterns, impulse control, body image and eating concerns, and challenges like compassion fatigue or burnout. She also supports people navigating career stress, commitment worries, and the emotional fallout from separation or loss.
Kristen tailors sessions to the individual, mixing collaborative conversation with concrete exercises and coping strategies. She encourages practical homework between sessions when it helps. If you are ready to explore your next steps, she aims to make the process understandable and doable.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Kristen commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice what matters and take steps toward it. ACT focuses on clarifying values and learning to act despite uncomfortable thoughts or feelings, which can help with anxiety and motivation. CBT looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful habits and reduce symptoms like worry or low mood.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and reactions. That approach can help with intimacy-related issues, communication problems, and feelings tied to abandonment or trust. Kristen works together with clients to pick approaches that match their goals and preferences rather than using one fixed method.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for this work. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill coaching when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be quicker check-ins or a better fit when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging support short updates, coping reminders, or ongoing practice between sessions. These options make it easier to match therapy to a busy schedule and to continue steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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