Katherine Pettit

Katherine Pettit is an LMSW practicing in Michigan who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, and related concerns. She uses straightforward, person-centered work to help clients set goals and make practical changes. Katherine emphasizes collaboration and respects each person as the expert on their own life.

Her approach blends motivational interviewing with cognitive behavioral techniques and solution-focused strategies. Those methods are used to address depression, relapse prevention, codependency, and co-occurring conditions. She listens for strengths and builds plans that fit a person’s day-to-day reality.

Katherine has six years of clinical experience working with substance use and co-occurring disorders. That background informs how she supports people coping with grief, trauma, bipolar symptoms, and overwhelming life changes. Sessions often focus on small, achievable steps rather than big sudden shifts.

In practice she pays attention to relationship patterns, family of origin issues, and body image or self-worth struggles. She also helps with sleep problems, anger, and compassion fatigue by teaching manageable skills people can try between sessions. The work aims to reduce barriers that get in the way of daily functioning.

Clients can expect a respectful, goal-directed process that centers their choices. Katherine encourages self-determination while offering concrete strategies and reflective feedback to move toward the client’s stated ambitions.

How therapeutic approaches guide online care

Attachment-informed work focuses on relationship patterns and how early bonds affect current behavior; it helps when relationship dynamics, trust, or communication keep causing distress. Client-centered therapy centers conversations on the person's priorities, offering a space to be heard and to clarify goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions, and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns.

Finding the right combination of approaches is part of the process. Katherine collaborates with clients to decide what feels most helpful based on their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they try approaches and adjust the plan as progress becomes clear.

Confirm the therapist's current session formats before booking, as they are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins when useful, and letting people join from a quieter space. It also supports ongoing work such as practicing CBT skills between meetings and using motivational interviewing to set realistic next steps.