About Norma
Norma Keech is a licensed social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, and trauma. She offers straightforward support and practical tools for day-to-day coping. Norma works to make therapy feel manageable for someone worried and pressed for time.
She uses simple, evidence-informed approaches to address things like communication problems, shame, codependency, and family of origin issues. Sessions focus on immediate concerns and on building skills that can be used between meetings.
Background and approach
Conversations are paced to fit each person’s needs and energy level. Norma draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and to try small behavioral changes. She also uses client-centered methods that prioritize the person’s own goals and choices.
Mindfulness and solution-focused strategies are added when helpful to manage distress and plan next steps. Over a decade in practice in Michigan has given her experience with addictions, grief, bipolar concerns, and compassion fatigue among other issues. That background informs how she helps people set realistic goals and track progress.
The focus is on practical change rather than labels. Her style is empathetic and goal-oriented. Norma helps people build clearer communication, healthier boundaries, and better emotion regulation.
She encourages steady steps toward the life someone wants to lead.
Evidence-based approaches delivered online
Norma commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and client-centered approaches in online sessions. CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. Client-centered work puts the person's goals and choices at the center of each session and helps people find their own solutions.Many clients also draw on dialectical behavior therapy skills and mindfulness exercises to manage intense emotions and reduce impulsive reactions. DBT-style skills teach practical ways to tolerate distress and improve interpersonal effectiveness, while mindfulness helps with grounding and present-moment attention.
Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. Norma will discuss goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked before, then adapt techniques to fit each person's needs. This lets the work stay focused and relevant as progress is tracked together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering different levels of interaction. Video is helpful for more in-depth conversation and skill practice, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for concise check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping treatment consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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