About Karlee
Karlee Shave is a licensed master social worker in Michigan with six years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and concerns around identity. Karlee aims to build a calm, approachable space where clients can speak honestly and start to feel more steady.
Her style centers on adapting to each person's needs. She leans on client-centered methods that prioritize the person's perspective.
How Karlee works
She also uses approaches that look at attachment patterns and practical thinking tools to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Sessions often include clear, doable strategies alongside time to talk about feelings and relationships. Karlee emphasizes collaboration - clients set the pace and goals while she offers tools and guidance.
Conversations focus on what is happening now and on small changes that add up over time. She has experience supporting people dealing with identity and relationship concerns, body image, attachment and abandonment worries, caregiver stress, and a range of mood and trauma-related issues. Karlee also works with co-occurring conditions and some neurodiversity concerns.
People who prefer a friendly, nonjudgmental listener who also offers practical steps tend to find her approach useful. Her sessions aim to help clients build skills, increase self-understanding, and move toward clearer choices.
Karlee lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Karlee works with
The areas below are the ones Karlee selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Approaches you can use online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional responses. Online sessions can help identify patterns of closeness and distance and practice new ways of relating to others and to oneself.Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person's own perspective and pace. The therapist listens without judgment, reflects what is shared, and helps clients explore their needs and choices in a respectful way.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, offers concrete tools to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress, and works well with short exercises and homework between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different methods. That collaborative process helps match techniques to real-life needs rather than prescribing a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller interaction is helpful. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging can support quick check-ins, shorter reflections, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between meetings.
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