About Katherine
Katherine Pettit is a licensed master social worker (LMSW) in Michigan who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, trauma, and ADHD. She centers care on each person’s goals and strengths. Katherine uses practical techniques so people can see real changes in day-to-day life.
With six years of clinical experience, she has worked with people facing substance use and co-occurring mental health issues. Her approach emphasizes empowerment and helping clients build skills for relapse prevention, mood management, and healthier patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on clear steps clients can try between meetings. Katherine blends client-centered conversation with structured methods like cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing. She also draws on attachment-based ideas to help people understand relationship patterns and solution-focused work to set short-term, achievable goals.
These methods are chosen to fit each person’s needs rather than following a single formula. In sessions she listens for what matters most to the client and then helps turn those priorities into a plan. Typical topics include anxiety, depression, anger, grief, sleeping problems, and challenges around intimacy and self-esteem.
She also supports people coping with life transitions and compassion fatigue. Katherine offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can pick a format that fits their routine. She communicates plainly and aims to make therapy feel useful and doable.
If someone is ready to begin, she helps them map practical first steps.
Therapeutic approaches and online options that fit your life
Attachment-based work focuses on how early and current relationships shape expectations and reactions in close relationships. Katherine uses this to help people notice patterns that affect trust, boundaries, and closeness, which can help with intimacy and relationship-related concerns.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a practical, skills-focused approach that looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It helps with anxiety, depression, sleeping problems, and many everyday challenges by teaching tools for changing unhelpful habits and reactions.
Motivational interviewing is a collaborative, nonjudgmental way to explore readiness for change and strengthen commitment to personal goals. It can be useful for people facing substance use concerns, codependency, or stages of change where building motivation matters.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Katherine will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and together decide which methods to try first. That process is collaborative and adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people work face-to-face without travel, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging suit quick check-ins or shorter, ongoing support. These options make it possible to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or other obligations while keeping therapy consistent and practical.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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