Counseling Services in Detroit, Michigan

Our licensed therapists help people in Detroit, MI and throughout Wayne County live happier and more fulfilled lives.​

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Make Relationships Better

Your relationships don’t have to be in turmoil to benefit from couples or family counseling. Therapy can take a good thing and make it great. When it comes to your relationships, our trained therapists can help you strengthen your bond with loved ones through improved communication, intimacy and trust-building. Scheduling an appointment!

Learn to Thrive at Work

The workplace is commonly cited as a source of stress and anxiety for most individuals in your community. Start My Wellness allows you to discuss these workplace challenges in a judgment-free zone. Our counselors and therapists can help you navigate these struggles by giving you the tools you need to communicate in a healthy way, assert your needs and identify patterns that may have been working against you. Scheduling an appointment!

De-Stress & Excel at School

Students of all ages can take advantage of our mental health counseling services to overcome daily stressors related to school. Whether it be a change in routine, a heavy workload, or social pressures, a qualified therapist can help you work through these life challenges in the most effective way. Don't delay scheduling your first appointment!

Conveniently located on 9 Mile, between Wrenson and Leitch Roads, you can find our office just east of Woodward and close to Downtown Troy. Whether you need assistance overcoming a difficult experience, dealing with anxiety or depression, or simply want to improve the quality of your life, our highly-skilled and licensed counselors will work with you to achieve your goals.

We are accepting new patients and offer phone, virtual or in-person appointments.

Questions? Please call 248-514-4955

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Quiet Quitting: An Opportunity to Reassess Your Work Satisfaction

Quiet Quitting: An Opportunity to Reassess Your Work Satisfaction

Have you been hearing about the new workplace trend called “quiet quitting?” Through a flurry of Tik Tok videos that were posted in mid-late August of this year, workers across the country were commenting on how work habits, expectations, and motivations have been shifting over the last few years under the umbrella of “quiet quitting.”

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Getting Ready for School!

Getting Ready for School!

There are emotional readiness needs for both parents and children with the school year approaching. Changing schedules can put stress on both individuals and families. We have provided some ideas for how to prepare and move through the change. Don’t forget to use the resources available to you to make this school year a success!

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Emotional Support Animals: Myth or Must?

Emotional Support Animals: Myth or Must?

We’ve all heard the phrase “a dog is a man’s best friend,” but is there any scientific evidence to back that claim? Whether or not a dog is a man’s best friend, there is important data that shows that Emotional Support Animals or ESAs do provide important symptom management for adults who experience severe mental health conditions.

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Managing Existential Climate Stress

Managing Existential Climate Stress

Over the last week, the news has reflected climate disasters happening around our country: fires in California, flooding in Kentucky, and the great salt lakes of Utah drying up. However you get your news, it can be overwhelming to learn of such devastation happening around us.

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988: Yay or Nay?

988: Yay or Nay?

For the last two weeks, news of the updated 988 National Suicide Prevention Hotline number have been plastered all over the internet: posts with explanations for what the new hotline means for those in crisis, posts with celebratory language to mark a new era for mental health response, and posts that scrutinize the hotline’s capacity and confidentiality.

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Therapy Alphabet Soup

Therapy Alphabet Soup

One of the brilliant and tedious truths about living in the 21st century is having easy access to endless information. It can be relieving to type a set of symptoms or a question into Google and be met with options, explanations, and next steps. It can also leave a person feeling overwhelmed and flooded with new information.

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Socializing after a Pandemic

Socializing after a Pandemic

COVID-19 has changed the ways in which people socially engage with one another. A “return to normal” might seem desirable at first glance, but minimizing the ways that COVID-19 has impacted our world is unfair to both ourselves and to our community.

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Finding Control in a Changing World

Finding Control in a Changing World

In our country, in our state, in our community, and in our relationships we are constantly changing, growing, and disagreeing. While change might be a common phenomenon, it is natural for different and new changes to throw us off and even create distress in our lives

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Are you psychoanalyzing me?

Are you psychoanalyzing me?

As a psychoanalyst, people often approach me and ask something like “what is mental health?” Usually this comes in the form of a joking question, “are you analyzing me?” I try to respond thoughtfully, recognizing that somehow a mental health professional may make people uncomfortable, as if I am judging them. I try to reassure them, I have enough on my plate and I’m not looking to work outside of the office.

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Seasonal Depression… in the Summer?

Seasonal Depression… in the Summer?

It may not come as a surprise to you that SAD affects around 5% of Americans, and can disproportionately impact females, younger people, and those living in Northern/higher altitude climates.

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