About Tieesha
Tieesha Ketchings-Holmes is a licensed master social worker (LMSW) based in Michigan who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She brings 13 years of professional experience and a steady, approachable manner to sessions. Tieesha focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and more capable.
Her style is warm and interactive. She treats people with sensitivity, dignity, and respect while guiding conversations toward clear goals. She frames clients as the experts in their own lives and builds on existing strengths to meet challenges.
Background and approach
Tieesha draws on client-centered therapy to keep the work focused on each person’s needs. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and solution-focused techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and to set small, achievable changes. These methods are used together to address worries, mood, and life transitions.
Common concerns she supports include anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, depression, relationship and communication issues, grief, trauma and abuse, and problems with intimacy or anger. She also helps people coping with caregiving stress, chronic illness or pain, postpartum depression, and questions about life purpose and commitment. Tieesha adapts the pace and focus of sessions to each person.
She emphasizes practical tools, clear steps, and collaboration so people leave with things they can try between meetings.
Approaches That Translate Well to Online Care
Tieesha uses client-centered therapy to focus sessions around each person’s priorities and values. This approach means conversations are guided by what matters most to the client and the therapist listens to build goals from their strengths.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people spot and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood, and repetitive worry because it breaks problems into manageable steps and practical exercises.
Choosing an approach is a team effort. Tieesha works with clients to figure out which methods fit their needs and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress unfolds. The result is a collaborative path that mixes listening with clear, doable tasks.
Online sessions give lots of flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and work through skills together. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are handy for brief check-ins, scheduling, or practicing short exercises between longer sessions. These formats help therapy fit into busy schedules and different day-to-day routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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