About Thiera
Dr. Thiera Clifford is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Michigan. She has ten years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions.
Her work often centers on practical goals and improving day-to-day functioning. She offers individual sessions that focus on clearly identified treatment goals. Conversations in sessions look at what is happening now and what steps can move someone toward more stability.
She may include skills for communication, confidence, and better organization when those fit a person's needs.
Background and approach
Mindfulness is one tool she uses to help clients notice unhelpful patterns and try new behaviors. Cognitive tools and solution-focused ideas are also common in sessions to break problems into manageable steps. She draws on psychodynamic ideas when past patterns help explain present struggles.
Dr. Clifford works with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, grief, parenting stress, caregiving strain, chronic illness or pain, and identity-related issues such as LGBT and multicultural concerns. She also supports people facing career stress, relationship intimacy issues, social anxiety, ADHD, and mood-related challenges.
Therapy with her can include learning coping skills, developing self-compassion, and planning practical steps for change. Sessions aim to help people build clearer goals and more reliable ways to reach them. The approach is collaborative and tailored to each person's situation.
Approaches that fit online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and helping people set their own goals. In online sessions this means the therapist follows the person's lead, reflects what they say, and helps identify next steps to try between sessions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It works well for anxiety and mood struggles because it breaks issues into small, practical exercises that can be done between video or chat meetings.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase focus. These exercises translate easily to short check-ins by phone, text prompts, or guided practice during a video call.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily routine. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions can be quicker and use less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, written reflection, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical routines.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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