About Gwendolyn
Gwendolyn Henry is a licensed master social worker with 27 years of clinical experience in Michigan. She focuses on helping people facing depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, and struggles with addiction. Her style is warm and direct, offering steady support while helping clients set clear goals.
She uses straightforward conversation to uncover what matters most to each person. Sessions often involve talking through stressful situations, learning small skills to manage anxiety or anger, and practicing ways to sleep and cope better day to day.
How Gwendolyn works
Gwendolyn draws on several established approaches to tailor care to what a person needs. Her background includes long experience with caregiver stress, attachment concerns, adoption and foster care issues, and end-of-life concerns. She also brings focused attention to communication problems, family of origin questions, and difficulties tied to abandonment or control.
That experience shapes how she frames problems and possible next steps. Gwendolyn uses a mix of practical techniques and listening to help people make change. This can include challenging unhelpful thoughts, telling and reshaping life stories, and using mindful awareness to reduce reactivity.
She also offers trauma-focused work when past events are getting in the way of day-to-day life. People who prefer calm, goal-oriented support that still feels human may find her approach helpful. She aims to help clients build coping skills, improve relationships, and move toward clearer routines and more stable moods.
Gwendolyn lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Gwendolyn works with
The areas below are the ones Gwendolyn selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and working at each person's pace. It focuses on what the client brings to the room and supports self-directed growth, which can help with stress, low self-esteem, and relationship concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches concrete techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior and is commonly used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and anger management.
EMDR is a trauma-focused method that helps people process distressing memories so those memories interfere less with daily life. It can be used when past events continue to cause strong emotional or physical reactions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, personal history, and what feels manageable. Together they will try methods that fit and adjust the plan as needed.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care from different locations.
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