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Karissa Thomas

MI LMSW 6801108127
Credentials
MI LMSW 6801108127
NPI Number
1003345380
Location
Michigan
Languages
English
Karissa Thomas

Accepting new clients

7 years experience | Intl Clients Welcome
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About Karissa Thomas

Hi there! My name is Karissa and I am a Clinical Social Worker located in Michigan. My goal is to make you feel heard and understood – in order to help empower you to work through whatever struggle or stressor you may be dealing with. I come to you unrehearsed, with a non-judgmental, curious and genuine approach. I believe that you are the expert of your own experience and your own needs. I am practical and straight-forward, while also demonstrating compassion. I am not afraid to laugh with you as we go through our therapeutic journey together. Your honesty, openness and willingness to be vulnerable will be beautiful components of this process together.

Licenses

LMSW
6801108127

Professional experience

  • Addictions
  • ADHD
  • Anger management
  • Bipolar disorder
  • Career difficulties
  • Coaching
  • Compassion fatigue
  • Coping with life changes
  • Depression
  • Eating disorders
  • Family conflicts
  • Grief
  • Intimacy-related issues
  • LGBT
  • Parenting issues
  • Relationship issues
  • Self esteem
  • Sleeping disorders
  • Stress, Anxiety
  • Trauma and abuse

Additional Focus Areas

  • Abandonment
  • Adoption and foster care
  • Aging and geriatric issues
  • Antisocial personality
  • Attachment issues
  • Autism and Asperger Syndrome
  • Blended family issues
  • Body image
  • Cancer
  • Caregiver issues and stress
  • Chronic pain, illness, and disability
  • Codependency
  • Commitment issues
  • Communication problems
  • Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
  • Dependent personality
  • Dissociation
  • Divorce and separation
  • Domestic violence
  • Drug and alcohol addiction
  • Eating and food-related issues
  • Emptiness
  • Family of origin issues
  • Family problems
  • Fatherhood issues
  • Fertility issues
  • First responder issues
  • Forgiveness
  • Gender dysphoria
  • Guilt and shame
  • Hearing impaired
  • Hoarding
  • Hospice and end-of-life counseling
  • Immigration issues
  • Infidelity
  • Intellectual disability
  • Isolation / loneliness
  • Jealousy
  • Life purpose
  • Men's issues
  • Midlife crisis
  • Money and financial issues
  • Multicultural concerns
  • Narcissism
  • Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
  • Panic disorder and panic attacks
  • Personality disorders
  • Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
  • Post-traumatic stress
  • Postpartum depression
  • Pregnancy and childbirth
  • Prejudice and discrimination
  • Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
  • Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
  • Self-harm
  • Self-love
  • Sex addiction
  • Sexual assault and abuse
  • Sexual dysfunction
  • Sexuality
  • Social anxiety and phobia
  • Traumatic brain injury
  • Trichotillomania
  • Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
  • Visually impaired
  • Women's issues
  • Workplace issues
  • Young adult issues

Clinical Approaches

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • Attachment-Based Therapy
  • Client-Centered Therapy
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
  • Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Gottman Method
  • Internal Family Systems
  • Mindfulness Therapy
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Psychodynamic Therapy
  • Solution-Focused Therapy
  • Trauma-Focused Therapy

Languages

  • English

15 Reviews

“Karissa Thomas has been very kind and listens to what I share with her. If you’re looking for someone who will listen and help you, I’d highly recommend her! I used to think talk therapy just wouldn’t work for me, but turns out all I needed was a therapist who listened instead of talking over me!”

“She is an amazing therapist. Through the years she had helped overcome several live challenge. Has help me create healthy boundaries in my personal relationships with both family and friends. She has truly made a difference in my life.”

“Karissa has been a wonderful therapist. She listens and helps guide me in healthy directions.”

“Great therapist who gives strong advice.”

“Attentive and thorough”

“Planet earth’s best therapist!”

“Karissa has been a wonderful therapist to me over the last year. I’ve been able to come to terms with my loses and failures, and have started to improve my mental health. I would highly recommend her to anyone who requires support as she is kind, understanding, and always gives recommendations for next steps to take.”

“Always attentive and helpful when I am under a lot of stress and anguish.”

“Great listener and very relatable.”

“Karissa might just be the best therapist on the entire internet.”

“I've only recently started therapy but it's been an eye opening experience giving me better insight into my mental health and what I'm really going through. I'm really glad I started”

“Karissa has been truly lovely! I felt that I was in very safe hands and I can’t recommend or commend her services more.”

“Very helpful and insightful”

“Amazing therapist! So friendly and understanding! Has helped me tremendously”

“It was good what you doing really understand me.”

These reviews represent a few of the most recent positive reviews from the therapist's clients on BetterHelp. Some people's experience may be different.
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