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Are you a teen or adult feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, life changes, difficult emotions, or experiences from the past? Maybe you feel stuck, unsure of yourself, or like you’re struggling to move forward. I provide a safe, supportive space where you can feel heard and understood without judgment. I take the time to understand your story, your experiences, and what you need rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach to therapy. Together, we'll work at a pace that feels comfortable for you while building insight, coping skills, and confidence to help you move forward. Whether anxiety is making it difficult to slow your thoughts, a life transition has left you feeling uncertain, or past experiences continue to affect you, we can work together to better understand those patterns and develop tools to help you move forward. I use thought-change strategies, mindfulness, action-based strategies, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in a collaborative, supportive environment. I believe everyone deserves a place to be themselves while building the skills and confidence needed to create meaningful, lasting change. Whether you're seeking support for day-to-day concerns or more complex challenges, I'm here to help.

You may already understand a lot about yourself and still feel stuck. You know you overthink. You know you second-guess yourself. You know you stay too long in situations that do not feel good, struggle to trust your own judgment, or feel responsible for other people’s reactions. You may have read the books, tried therapy before, worked on boundaries, or pushed yourself to make healthier choices. And still, the same patterns keep showing up. That is where our work begins. My approach is warm, direct, relational, and trauma-focused. I help you understand not only where a pattern came from, but what keeps pulling you back into it. We may talk through what is happening, work on new ways of responding, slow down and notice what is happening emotionally or in your nervous system, or use EMDR when deeper processing would help. I ask questions. I notice patterns. I make connections. I will tell you what I am seeing, and we will figure things out together. The goal is not simply to understand yourself better. It is to help you trust yourself more, build healthier relationships, and create change that begins to feel real in your everyday life. I provide virtual trauma therapy for adults throughout Michigan and Ohio. If you understand the pattern but are tired of still living inside it, you are welcome to start with a free consultation.

As owner of A Brand New Start Counseling, I believe in the title and that a brand new start is exactly that. During our lives we are presented with many opportunities to start anew, whether those opportunities come from deliberate personal choice or a combination of life events that just happen. It is my goal to meet you where you are in your life and assist you as you begin your new start to developing a healthier, more empowered you. I am a well seasoned counselor who has been in the business of working alongside individuals, couples, families and children for eighteen years as we together search for new answers to life's abundant challenges. Whether it is depression, relationship issues, stress management, or more, I am confident that we can find the solutions that best work for you. I believe strongly that each of us carries our own answers within ourselves, but sometimes it just takes a little help to unlock those answers. While the counseling process can be painful, it can also be something like opening a treasure chest discovering your own inner strengths that will benefit you as you begin again in your life.

Clients often come to me after feeling something was “missing” in past therapy, or that deeper change remained out of reach. My integrative approach combines internal family systems, somatic, and psychodynamic work to access layers traditional talk therapy often doesn’t reach. Specializing in aspects of trauma means strengthening sense of identity and self, emotional regulation, interpersonal patterns, as well as deeper difficulties often associated with borderline personality condition. I also enjoy supporting expats and otherwise mobile clients, drawing on my global clinical work and lived experience as a long-term expat. Clients appreciate how I intuitively pull upon a variety of modalities as therapy evolves. Heavily relying on internal family systems, somatic, and attachment-based interventions, I also blend in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), as seems fit. My approach is centered on creating sustainable, long-term change by addressing the underlying patterns that shape emotional well-being and relationships. If this resonates, I invite you to reach out to explore whether my practice may be a good fit for you.

Many of the experiences people face reside in our anxiety, and finding solutions to complex life problems associated with anxiety often requires additional support and consultation. This is where I hope to be of service to you. I believe that we, as individuals, can accomplish just about anything if we are prepared and have the right supports in place.

At Heart Walk Counseling, I believe you deserve a space where you can feel heard, understood, and supported without judgment. Life can bring challenges that feel overwhelming, and you don’t have to work through them alone. My approach is warm, compassionate, and focused on meeting you where you are. I believe counseling should be a place where you can be honest about what you’re experiencing, explore what may be holding you back, and discover tools that help you move forward. Whether you’re working through anxiety, grief, relationship struggles, trauma, life transitions, or simply feeling stuck, my goal is to help you better understand yourself and create meaningful change at a pace that feels comfortable for you. At Heart Walk Counseling, we walk alongside you, not telling you how to live your life, but helping you find your own path toward healing and growth.

I provide a non-judgmental, caring space for clients to explore symptoms of anxiety, depression, everyday stress, or relationship conflict. I believe you are the expert of your life and that you have many strengths and I hope to offer a new perspective and an unbiased viewpoint on patterns that you may have developed in your life. Through cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness strategies, we can approach what patterns have worked well in your life and what have held you back in some ways to see what might work better.

I have worked as a therapist with individuals,couples and families since 1977. People usually come to therapy because of some pattern of internal pain, andor because of difficulties with their personal relationships, or in their every day lives. I work in a respectful, confidential, compassionate, and collaborative way. At the same time, I am professional, very direct and honest; while honoring your feelings and values. The therapeutic relationship is a critically important container from which we do the work. I also believe that clients need a therapsit who is a "real" person and who actively listens and responds to their concerns. The focus of therapy is to assist clients in understanding the nature of the problems that bring them to my office, as well as to clarify their goals and the path for change. The therapeutic process helps people to see beyond the limits that prevented satisfying change in the past: to recognize new possibilities and options for themselves and their relationships. We then focus on their current strengths, as well as developing new skills for dealing with their lives. At this point they are able to make different conscious choices, and to live those choices in a way that leads to a more meaningful and satisfying life. EMDR [Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing], has been a particularly powerful tool that many clients have chosen to utilize as a way of speeding up the process of reaching their goals. We often will integrate EMDR into the therapy process, to help heal painful memories, and the meanings associated with those memories. EMDR can help to open new meanings, new ways of thinking, reacting, and feeling that lead to personal growth and healing. I would be glad to speak with you concerning any questions or concerns you may have. Feel free to call me at 734-9961661, Sincerely, Glenn Kagan

I am a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) and a mental health therapist providing services in Michigan and Florida. I graduated in 2008 and 2009 with a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree, respectively, from Florida State University’s social work program. I moved to Michigan after graduation, where I received my clinical license. I have over fifteen years of experience in the mental health field. That experience includes work in residential facilities for youth and delivering home-based family counseling services in Calhoun County for more than ten years. Over that time, I received training in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT), Love and Logic parenting practices, 7 Challenges, and various other clinical interventions. During my time in Calhoun County, I worked primarily with youth 5 to 17 years old and their families. In the last five years, my focus has shifted more to older adolescents and adults. I have worked with children and adults who struggle with depression, anxiety, attention-deficit hyperactivity (ADHD), oppositional defiant challenges, low self-esteem, life orientation concerns, psychosis, and suicidality, to name a few of the most common issues. As a family therapist, I have a strong passion for helping guide others through the stressors of life. I am particularly drawn to supporting parents who are navigating their children’s challenges and their own emotional states while providing direction. I look forward to meeting each of you. If I cannot be of service, I will always work to help you find referrals to someone who can.

We don't just give you tools. You know the ones. The tools that work fine on New Year's Day and two weeks after. Or on your days off. Or when you are home hermitting. Or when everything is going fine enough (okay, -ish) with your romantic partner, with your narcissistic mother, with your boss, with your creative project, with the news turned off. But THEN... Monday comes. Your heart got broken. Your mom shows up in your messages. Your boss calls you into their office. You HAVE TO look at your news feed (because the world might come to an end and you could have known about it last Tuesday). You know. LITERALLY ANYTHING that overwhelms you, upsets you, judges you, shames you, drains you. And your tools go out the window. Tools? What tools? And, notice that I didn't even address your creativity, because that went out the window on New Year's Day! Shit. Why? Because your nervous system DOESN'T CARE ABOUT Tools! Tools? What tools. But then... HEYOKA. Wouldn't it be nice if your mother couldn't bother you? Wouldn't it be nice if your own parts would quit sabotaging you? It would be so nice! All that time you used to spend scrolling, shopping, gaming, streaming, burned out, stressed out, micro-dosing, brain-fogged, hyper focused, anxious, depleted, sick, and depressed. And notice that I didn't even address your Empathic Co-dependency, because having to fixhelpsolveheal EVERYTHING AND EVERYBODY is your mode of operation Every Day. WHY Heyoka? And why does she keep typing caps-lock? Because We Heal Nervous Systems (not just your nerves). So then... You can Move Beyond Trauma...and Drama...and Bullshit...and Your Own Part-icular Patterns and Stuckness and Coping and Nonsense. And THEN... (oh my, then)... that REALLY would be nice. But how? But what does this really mean? But is any of that really possible? But you don't know me, though, Sherry. And you REALLY don't know my MOTHER. (Or insert the name of your difficult person about here.) Would you like to tell me more so we can find out together if this would really work for you? Contact me. We'll set up a time for a quick phone call. Happy to listen, and I'll give you my honest assessment. Curious about anything else? The meaning or further exploration of something you read here? Whether we'd be a good fit? How this might be different from other therapy or other therapists you've had? Whether I've ever worked with another person like you, or a situation like you have? Or maybe you just really wanted to know the answer to why I typed in caps-lock? Contact me. We'll get you set up for that as well. And P.S. Sometimes people don't know what they want or need when they call. They just know they are compelled to do it.