About Kristen
Kristen Gennety is a licensed master social worker (LMSW) in Michigan with four years of clinical experience. She uses a straightforward, warm style to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and relationship or family concerns. Kristen aims to make the first step feel less intimidating.
Her sessions focus on practical skills and real-life choices. She blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral ideas, and client-centered listening to help people notice what matters and take small, workable steps.
How Kristen works
Humor and a person's existing strengths are part of how she helps people move forward. Kristen supports work on self-esteem, motivation, and coping with life changes. She also addresses grief, compassion fatigue, eating and body-image issues, intimacy-related concerns, and mood conditions like bipolar disorder.
Communication problems, codependency, and boundaries come up often in sessions too. Attachment issues, abandonment, and forgiveness are explored gently when they affect relationships and daily life. Kristen helps people understand patterns that lead to isolation, impulsivity, or anger and practices skills to respond differently.
She keeps the work practical and tailored to each person. For someone nervous about starting therapy, Kristen aims to make scheduling and the first conversations simple. She encourages people to name a small goal to begin with and builds on progress one step at a time.
Kristen lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Kristen works with
The areas below are the ones Kristen selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
How Kristen’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice their thoughts and choose actions that match their values. Online sessions can use ACT to identify what matters and set small, achievable steps toward those goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors; through video or chat, clients can learn practical tools to manage anxiety, depression, and impulsive reactions. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and acceptance so the person feels heard; this approach supports building trust and drawing on personal strengths during conversations online.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Kristen collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. She starts with simple, measurable goals and adjusts the plan as progress happens, treating therapy as a shared, flexible process.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat or text messaging can offer brief check-ins, homework support, or more frequent contact between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to use the format that helps a person engage most effectively.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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