Counseling and Therapy Services
Detroit, Michigan

Most people expect to feel some version of overwhelmed after a baby arrives. What they don’t always expect is the anxiety that settles in and doesn’t leave. Not ordinary new-parent worry, but something that runs underneath everything, coloring every decision, making...

Shy people exist. So do people with social anxiety. The two get mixed up constantly, and the confusion matters more than it might seem. Calling social anxiety “just shyness” is a bit like calling a broken leg “tired legs.” The surface experience overlaps, but the...

DBT gets mentioned a lot in therapy conversations, usually in the same breath as CBT, and is rarely explained clearly enough to know what it actually involves. DBT skills are a specific, structured set of tools developed by psychologist Marsha Linehan for people whose...

There’s a specific kind of strange that’s hard to describe to someone who hasn’t felt it. You’re in a conversation, or driving somewhere familiar, and suddenly the world looks slightly wrong. Not wrong in a way you can point to exactly. Just distant. Flat. Like you’re...

Being highly sensitive is not the same as being fragile, anxious, or difficult to be around. It’s a specific way the nervous system processes information, and about 15 to 20 percent of people have it. Most of them spent years being told they were “too much” or “too...

By the middle of the year, many people feel like they’ve hit rock bottom. The springtime energy has faded, deadlines are piling up, and vacation is still a long way off. If you wake up in the morning already feeling tired, and the work you used to enjoy now only...

People show up to therapy with a lot of different things on their mind, but one question comes up more than almost any other: “Should I be doing CBT or just regular therapy?” It sounds like a technical question, but it’s really about something simpler. What is this...

You’ve sent the text. Now you’re refreshing your phone every few minutes, running through possible reasons they haven’t responded: maybe they’re annoyed, maybe they’re pulling away, maybe last night went worse than you thought. It feels urgent and completely out of...

One partner wants more closeness. The other needs more space. And the harder one reaches, the further the other steps back. If you’ve been in a relationship where the dynamic felt like perpetual push-pull, where connection was always close enough to feel possible and...

Mindfulness is paying non-judgmental attention to the present moment. Anyone can build this skill in just 5 minutes a day. Start with breath awareness or a body scan for immediate calm. Expect reduced reactivity within the first week and measurable brain changes...