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I am a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) committed to providing compassionate, culturally responsive care that honors the full ...
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I am a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) committed to providing compassionate, culturally responsive care that honors the full complexity of your lived experience.
I specialize in using Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help clients navigate anxiety, depression, emotional regulation, relationship challenges, and life transitions.
My approach is collaborative and practical, blending evidence-based strategies with genuine connection. Together, we will build skills to manage distress, shift unhelpful thought patterns, and create meaningful, lasting change.
I believe therapy should be a space where you don’t have to shrink or codeswitch—where your identity is affirmed and your voice matters. Whether you're working through daily stressors or deeper emotional wounds, I aim to support you with empathy, honesty, and tools you can actually use in your everyday life.
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I draw from years of working at the intersection of mental health, education, and workforce development to help clients move forwa...
I draw from years of working at the intersection of mental health, education, and workforce development to help clients move forward with clarity, confidence, and purpose.
I'm a licensed professional counselor dedicated to helping professionals navigate leadership pressures, career transitions, identity development, and emotional well-being. My background spans workforce development, talent strategy, and mental health practice. I've led statewide initiatives and built programs to strengthen mental health and professional readiness. This gives me deep understanding of how workplace stress, organizational dynamics, and personal expectations shape daily life. I work primarily with professionals navigating demanding careers or transitions—many facing burnout, stress, or uncertainty about their next steps.
My approach blends reflective work with concrete tools. I help clients explore identity, challenge limiting beliefs, strengthen emotional regulation, and reconnect with purpose using CBT, Strengths-Based Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy. Therapy is a judgment-free space where you can be honest and gain strategies to move through challenges with clarity.
If you're feeling overwhelmed, uncertain, or ready for something to shift, you're not alone and I'm here to help. I meet you with authenticity and compassion, helping you process what you're carrying, heal from the past, and build confidence to move forward with clarity. Together, we can explore what's possible and help you toward the life you want to live.
As a person who sees through a lens of no judgement, I understand that each individual has their own unique concerns and needs tha...
As a person who sees through a lens of no judgement, I understand that each individual has their own unique concerns and needs that need to be expressed, heard, and validated.
Glenda Martinez is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with over 10 years of experience in the mental health field. Glenda is certified as an Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor (AADC) and holds a certificate for Nutrition and Holistic Health. She has a compassion for helping others and provides individualized assessments and treatment plans to guide the therapy process for adults, including family therapy sessions per request. Glenda specializes in depressive disorders (SAD, major depression, and depression due to medical conditions); anxiety disorders (general anxiety, separation anxiety, social anxiety) and panic disorder; mood disorders (such as bipolar disorder); substance use disorders (alcohol and drug use); post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); and much more.
Glenda completed her Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) at Saginaw Valley University and her Master of Social Work (MSW) at Eastern University with Honors. She has great interest in creative arts and completed her Associate of Arts degree with the honor of being selected for the Presidents List throughout her semesters. Glenda utilizes an integrative, strength-based, and client-centered approach while incorporating mindfulness, holistic principles, and creativity. She enjoys including creative outlets of art, creative writing, and physical wellness when a client is interested in doing so. With years of experience in substance use recovery, recovery focus is also an area of expertise. Glenda has many years of experience with diverse populations and settings. This has allowed her to gather many tools to empower individuals in navigating through any challenges throughout their life journey.
Additional approaches implemented by Glenda that support change while providing a safe place for healing are cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), motivational interviewing, solution focused, experiential therapy, rational emotive behavior therapy, existential, and humanistic therapy. Although Glenda has a variety of treatment models, she believes working as a collaborative team creates a solid professional and therapeutic relationship that guides the sessions to successful outcomes and determines what is the best approach for each individual. She believes that setting goals for your tailored needs and concerns are just as equally important which are established by a customized treatment plan. She will guide you through this therapeutic process to clarify goals and begin the journey of wellness in treatment.
As each unique individual travels their path, life barriers, hurdles, life changes, adjustments, and stresses can occur that can cause a lot of distress toward whole well-being. You are not alone. It takes great courage to reach out for help and Glenda will provide a non-judgmental, safe, confidential, calming environment to build self-awareness, techniques, and personal growth from these life challenges. If you are ready to take this step, Glenda looks forward to meeting you.
As one who has experienced personal trauma, I have an authentic understanding of how we are impacted by life circumstances and how...
As one who has experienced personal trauma, I have an authentic understanding of how we are impacted by life circumstances and how building new life skills can empower us once again and help us to overcome our fear.
I am a Licensed Master Social Worker with over 15 years of experience providing compassionate, client-centered care. I specialize in supporting individuals, couples, and families navigating challenges such as depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, relationship issues, and life transitions. My approach is rooted in empathy, respect, and collaboration, allowing clients to explore their emotions in a safe and supportive environment.
I earned my Master’s in Social Work from Wayne State University. I have received advanced training in cognitive behavioral therapy, family systems work, and exposure therapy. My approach is flexible and person-centered, adapting to each client’s unique needs and goals to help them gain insight, healing, and personal growth.
I believe everyone has the strength to overcome life’s hardest moments, and I’m passionate about helping clients rediscover that strength within themselves. I strive to build a genuine, open, and trusting relationship where clients feel heard, valued, and empowered to create lasting change in their lives.
I like to meet people where they're at, then help them find their own path through life....
I like to meet people where they're at, then help them find their own path through life.
Brad Rudolph is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with over 3 years of experience working in a variety of roles to gain a broader understanding of the social issues impacting the communities and the individuals he hopes to help. Brad is passionate about helping people of all ages (11-100+), races, sexualities, and genders. He specializes in helping others process and cope with depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, anger management, addiction, and major life transitions.
Brad completed his Master of Social Work (MSW) at Grand Valley State University of Michigan. Following graduate school, he has worked in a variety of roles in the Grand Rapids area including home-based clinician, in-patient clinician, case manager, partial-hospitalization clinician, group therapy leader, and trauma program facilitator. Brad utilizes multiple treatment approaches including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), solution-focused, motivational interviewing, mindfulness, psychoeducation, and more.
It can be hard to ask for help and admit to ourselves that we need more support in our life. Brad strives to create a space where you can comfortably let your guard down and process your thoughts and feelings without fear of judgment or criticism. He will help you work through whatever problems life has thrown at you, regardless of how big or small. If you're ready to take the next step on your path to a better life, schedule your appointment today!
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For family therapy, my go-to is to make the family feel like one and become more open to talking and working together.
A tool I use is teaching families how to work as a unit and not just individually.
I see progress when families start to think of themselves as one whole and are able to communicate and work together as a whole.
Clients can use team-building actives to teach families to work together.
Clients should know that it can be hard to learn to communicate in another way, but remember that the goal is to be a unit and work together.
Family therapy helps families resolve conflicts and strengthen their relationships. It is led by qualified mental health professionals like psychologists, licensed professional counselors (LPCs), and licensed clinical social workers (LCSWs) who have extensive training in family dynamics and group communication.
Thriveworks family therapists in Novi, MI usually begin by asking what everyone’s goals are for family counseling. Family members may need help with very specific issues or with general relationship functioning. But there are three main purposes in family counseling: to educate, to counsel, and to strengthen. Thriveworks also offers online family therapy and in-person services, so you may all meet in an office together or join a video call from your home depending on everyone’s location and availability.
The most effective form of Family therapy will often depend on the family itself, as there are many types of family therapy for therapists to use as they see fit in order to best meet the needs of their clients. However, one of the most commonly used types of family therapy is structural family therapy (SFT). SFT focuses specifically on family dynamics and interactions, looking at how they shape the relationships and structure present in the family. It can be effectively used to treat a variety of concerns.
This answer often looks different to each family that starts family therapy. However, some signs that your family might need to consider family counseling include frequent fights or misunderstandings, constant tension, experiencing loss, behavioral issues, marital issues, divorce, and blended family issues, among others.
In family therapy, therapists will often start by asking questions and assessing individual and family dynamics. From there, they may employ therapeutic techniques such as structured family therapy, CBT, strategic family therapy, and more depending on the present concerns and conflicts. From there, a therapist will work to open lines of communication between family members and facilitate emotional healing and growth.
Family therapy can be incredibly successful, with some studies reporting a success rate of almost 90% for improving participants’ emotional and mental health, and around 66% for improving their physical health.
Thriveworks therapists in Novi, MI offer both online family therapy and in-person family therapy. We encourage you to choose the option that works best for you.
Family therapy is usually short term and solution-focused, with most families accomplishing their goals in 12 sessions or fewer. However, it can also last for longer if the probles at hand are more complex — and that’s okay, too.
Because someone’s identity is usually so intertwined with one’s family, it can be hard to separate the good and the bad without some growing pains. This is one of the situations where family therapy can help.
A licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) at Thriveworks in Novi, MI can help facilitate discussion between family members on a wide variety of rich and complicated subjects. These therapy sessions can be an effective way for family members to enhance their bonds, advance their communication skills, and create healthy boundaries where they’re needed. Family therapy can also help identify issues in the family that could benefit from more support, like when a sibling has behavioral problems or a spouse is struggling with addiction.
Family therapy at Thriveworks in Novi, MI works by putting all relevant parties in one room (or on one video conferencing call in the case of online counseling) and giving everyone a safe space in which to be heard. The goal of family therapy isn’t to blame a particular family member for an issue, but to help everyone see issues from each other’s perspectives. That’s when real, open communication can occur.
The licensed mental health professionals who work with families at Thriveworks might help clients address any of the following issues:
Family counseling can lead to breakthroughs in how family members understand and treat each other. For example, a grown child might learn his mother’s emotional triggers, and his mother might learn how to listen without reacting. But the benefits of family therapy are an outcome of your goals for treatment. A family counselor at Thriveworks in Novi, MI will want to know what everyone in the family wants to achieve before formulating a treatment plan. Possible goals include the following:
Family therapy is a meaningful way to show your family members that you care and that you’re committed. Sensitive family issues can be dealt with lovingly instead of combatively. Parents and children can grow together, instead of apart. And bonds can be maintained and nurtured instead of neglected.
When you call the Thriveworks office, our staff can match you to a top-rated, fully licensed family therapist quickly. Most clients have an initial session within the same week. As an additional benefit, Thriveworks clients can reach their provider by phone or email between sessions. Don’t wait until your family is in crisis. Get help now with Thriveworks in Novi, MI.
Includes individual, couples, child/ teen, & family therapy
Includes reducing symptoms with medication & management
Thriveworks Counseling & Psychiatry Novi is located near W 10 Mile Rd and Haggerty Rd, off I-275. It is near Orchard Hills West Park and close to the Meadowbrook Lake.
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