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Kristen Gennety

LMSW

Warm, practical support for everyday challenges

  • Focus on strengths
  • Practical skills
  • Compassionate listening

About Kristen

Kristen Gennety is a licensed social worker in Michigan with four years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, ADHD, and relationship concerns. Kristen aims to make the first step toward therapy feel less daunting by offering a warm and down-to-earth approach.

She uses practical, person-focused methods to help people build on their own strengths. Sessions are designed to fit each person's needs and pace, with attention to what feels workable in day-to-day life. Humor and compassion are welcome parts of the process when they help clients move forward.

Kristen draws on approaches such as acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-based perspectives, and client-centered care to guide conversations. She also uses cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior strategies when they suit the client's goals. Those methods are used to address patterns, emotional reactions, and coping skills in real situations.

Her practice covers concerns ranging from grief and trauma to body image, eating and food-related issues, and family conflict. She also supports people navigating intimacy, career stress, anger, and codependency. Kristen emphasizes a collaborative plan so clients feel involved in each step.

In sessions she listens first and helps clients clarify goals. Then she works with them to try practical tools and small changes that add up. The focus is on what helps someone feel more capable and connected in their daily life.

How therapeutic approaches guide online care

Kristen uses acceptance and commitment ideas and attachment-based perspectives alongside client-centered care to shape remote sessions. Acceptance and commitment approaches focus on clarifying values and taking small, workable steps toward them while learning to relate differently to difficult thoughts. Attachment-based work looks at relationship patterns and how early connections affect current reactions, which can help with intimacy and family concerns. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and meeting people where they are so conversations feel respectful and collaborative.

Finding the right fit is a joint process. She will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try approaches that match those needs. Clients are invited to give feedback so methods can be adjusted over time.

Session format details were not specified in the biography, so confirm current online options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. They also let people use different tools together in sessions, such as worksheets or behavioral experiments, to practice skills between meetings.

License and NPI

LMSW Michigan · No. 6801118660
NPI1871117002

As shown on the therapist's profile. You can check a license with the state board and an NPI with the national registry.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesSelf esteemCompassion fatigueADHD

Also works with

LGBTFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseGriefIntimacy-related issuesEating disordersAnger managementCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderDepressionCoping with life changes

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAttachment issuesBody imageCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesDivorce and separationDomestic violenceEating and food-related issuesFamily problemsForgivenessGuilt and shameImpulsivityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMoney and financial issuesMood disordersNarcissismObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-loveSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Mindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

4+ years

Credentials

Michigan

Languages

English

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she address?

She works with stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship and family concerns, grief, trauma, body image, eating and food-related issues, and related challenges like anger or isolation.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth, mixing acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment perspectives, and client-centered work while using CBT and DBT techniques when helpful.

What experience does she bring to sessions?

She holds four years of professional experience working with clients on emotional and relationship challenges in clinical settings.

What credentials and region apply to this therapist?

She is an LMSW - Licensed Master Social Worker - practicing in Michigan.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can international clients work with her?

She does not accept international clients at this time.

How are fees and payment handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with this therapist?

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