About Kirt
Kirt Baab is a licensed master social worker with 37 years of clinical experience. He practices in Michigan and brings a long career of one-on-one work across many care settings. Kirt focuses on each person in front of him rather than letting theory lead the session.
He has worked in addiction treatment, mental health programs, hospital outpatient clinics, social service agencies, and schools. That variety means he has seen many life situations and common patterns that get in the way of daily functioning.
Background and approach
He uses his background to help people reduce emotional suffering and change painful habits. Kirt draws from several approaches, including attachment-based work, client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior ideas, and emotionally focused work. In practice he matches techniques to the person and their goals instead of relying on a single method.
Common concerns he addresses include stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, bipolar challenges, and ADHD. He also helps with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, career concerns, and problems tied to guilt or isolation. Sessions aim to teach practical skills for communication, emotion regulation, and coping.
Kirt emphasizes longer-lasting changes like clearer communication, fewer intense emotional episodes, and improved resilience. He invites people to set goals and learn tools that fit their daily life. Kirt offers services in English and works with people of diverse backgrounds and orientations.
He frames therapy as a collaborative effort and encourages a straightforward, skills-based path toward feeling better.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect current connection and trust. It helps people notice how they relate to others and build more reliable ways of getting needs met. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact; it uses concrete exercises to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits. Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on identifying and shifting emotional responses that keep people stuck, which can help with intimacy issues and overwhelming emotions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, history, and preferences, then suggest techniques that fit their needs. That way the plan evolves with feedback and real-world results, rather than being fixed from the start.
Online therapy with this clinician is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video is useful for deeper discussion and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and chat or text is handy for brief updates, practice between sessions, or when writing feels more natural. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while using the chosen approaches to address stress, anxiety, ADHD-related concerns, grief, or relationship patterns.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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