Kerre Nitz, LPC

Kerre Nitz is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan. She focuses on common and painful concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem, addictions, and intimacy-related issues. Kerre also supports people facing ADHD, bipolar challenges, parenting strains, career stress, and trauma and abuse. She writes plainly and listens closely to understand what matters most to each person.

Kerre brings eight years in the helping professions, including work in inpatient settings, schools, hospital crisis response, and outpatient therapy. She earned a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and a Certificate in Trauma Studies, and also holds a Master of Divinity. Her background includes work with a wide age range from school-age children through older adults.

Her approach centers on building a trusting relationship through unconditional positive regard. Sessions emphasize practical skills, strengths, and coping strategies so people can manage everyday problems and big life changes. She draws on several therapeutic methods to match the work to each person’s needs.

Kerre uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also incorporates client-centered methods to focus on each person’s goals and attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns. Mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative techniques are added when useful for grief, eating concerns, or stress.

People who choose Kerre can expect direct, compassionate sessions that name strengths and build skills. She aims to help clients move past barriers and toward clearer purpose and fuller participation in life.

How specific approaches guide online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect, then teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy examines relationship patterns and early bonds to understand current struggles with trust, intimacy, or abandonment issues.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress unfolds, making the process collaborative and flexible.

Confirm the available session formats before booking, as the biography does not list specific options. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or travel. It can also allow shorter check-ins when time is tight and remove commute time so people can use an evening or lunch break. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT, CBT, and attachment-based methods to online conversations and activities, focusing on skills practice, values work, and relationship patterns while working remotely.