About Kerre
Kerre Nitz is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and problems with self-esteem. She also supports clients facing trauma, addiction concerns, sleep or eating problems, ADHD, and career or parenting strains. Kerre practices from Michigan and offers work that focuses on everyday challenges and coping skills.
Kerre draws on somatic ideas alongside talk-based methods to help people notice how their body and mind interact.
Background and approach
She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful patterns and build new, workable habits. Attachment-informed work helps when relationships and connection are central concerns. Her style centers on building a trusting relationship.
Sessions aim to be straightforward and interactive. Kerre points out strengths and helps clients try practical steps between meetings. Kerre completed a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and also earned a Master of Divinity.
She holds a Michigan Licensed Professional Counselor credential - LPC. Over her career she has worked in inpatient care, schools, hospital crisis settings, and outpatient therapy. Therapy with Kerre typically focuses on concrete goals: reducing panic, improving sleep, managing mood swings, or navigating grief.
She combines body-focused noticing with cognitive tools and values-based work to help clients take small, steady steps forward.
How Kerre’s Approaches Work Online
Kerre uses somatic-informed work to help people notice how tension, breath, and posture relate to feelings and reactions. This kind of attention can make stress and panic easier to understand and manage. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values despite difficult thoughts and feelings. Attachment-Based work focuses on how early and current relationships affect trust and communication, which can help with intimacy and relationship concerns.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Kerre takes a collaborative stance and will help clients choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. She adjusts the pace and techniques as the work unfolds so clients can try what feels helpful and set practical goals together.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, continue care during life changes, and access support from different locations. Many people find the variety of formats helpful for practicing skills between appointments and staying consistent with their work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English