About Bernice
Bernice Hardman is a Licensed Master Social Worker who practices in Michigan. She brings a calm, straightforward style to sessions and focuses on helping people handle stress, anxiety, depression, and changes in life. Bernice explains things plainly and aims to make therapy feel usable for everyday problems.
Her approach blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and trauma-focused methods. She helps people untangle patterns in thinking and behavior, manage intense emotions, and make sense of difficult past events.
How Bernice works
Sessions often include practical tools to try between meetings. Bernice draws on ten years of experience and uses a partnership model in session. She encourages people to set goals and decide the pace of work together.
That can mean skill-building for emotion regulation, reframing unhelpful thoughts, or telling personal stories in a new way. She has a broad focus that includes parenting concerns, workplace stress, relationship issues, grief, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people facing prejudice, pregnancy and childbirth questions, blended family dynamics, and communication problems.
Bernice pays attention to mind-body connections and helps clients find routines that support wellbeing. Therapy with Bernice is practical and adaptable. People can expect clear next steps after sessions and options for video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
She works in English and practices in Michigan as an LMSW.
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What Bernice works with
The areas below are the ones Bernice selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. It is practical and often includes homework such as experiment tasks or thought records, which can be reviewed during video or chat sessions.DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, teaches skills for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. It uses concrete exercises like breathing techniques and grounding practices that can be coached over the phone or in a video visit.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Bernice will talk with each person about goals, needs, and preferences, then recommend which methods to try first. That decision is collaborative and can be adjusted as needs change.
Online sessions offer practical benefits for many people. Video calls are useful for a fuller face-to-face conversation and coaching skills in real time. Phone sessions can fit shorter check-ins or times with lower bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for brief updates, coaching between sessions, or when writing out thoughts feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, parenting, and other commitments.
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