About Mamie
Mamie Routhier, LMSW, offers practical, person-focused therapy rooted in humanistic care. She brings 28 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, depression, stress, parenting challenges, grief, and ADHD. Her style tends to be direct and pragmatic while remaining sensitive and compassionate.
She often uses client-centered methods that prioritize the person's goals and preferences. She also draws on solution-focused strategies to set small, achievable steps. For people with a history of trauma, she uses trauma-focused methods to address painful memories and their impact on daily life.
Background and approach
Mamie has long experience supporting parents of children with autism and those involved in foster or adoptive care. She has worked with adults who face addiction, bipolar disorder, chronic illness, and the practical strains of caregiving. Her background includes many years responding to sexual abuse, domestic violence, and other severe trauma.
Sessions tend to be interactive and goal-oriented. She helps people break problems into manageable parts and try practical changes between meetings. Mamie also supports those coping with life transitions, career stress, sleep problems, and intimacy or relationship concerns.
Her Michigan-based practice is informed by nearly three decades of work across diverse settings. She speaks English and uses a flexible approach to match each person's needs and pace.
How approaches like client-centered and trauma-focused work online
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person's goals first and focuses on listening, reflection, and support. It helps when someone wants a therapist who follows their pace and priorities rather than imposing a set plan.Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on small, practical steps and clear goals. It is helpful for people who want short-term progress, coping strategies, or concrete changes they can try between sessions.
Trauma-Focused Therapy helps people process distressing memories and reduce their impact on day-to-day life. It involves careful pacing and techniques aimed at reducing the hold of traumatic experiences while building coping skills.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your needs, discuss options, and adapt methods based on your goals and comfort level. This collaborative process helps shape a plan that fits you.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls are good for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit during a work break. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or written reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule care around daily life and keep continuity even when routines change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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