About Petra
Petra Morey is a licensed marriage and family therapist with nine years of clinical experience. She practices from Michigan and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, and intimacy-related concerns. Petra aims to create a calm, straightforward space where clients can talk through problems and build practical coping skills.
Petra draws on both body-based and talk therapies to help people notice how emotions show up in the body.
Background and approach
She also uses acceptance and commitment approaches and mindfulness tools to help people stay present and make values-based choices. For couples she incorporates research-based techniques to improve communication and rebuild connection. Her background includes substantial work across mental health settings and with people facing major life changes.
That experience informs a style that balances empathy with clear, goal-focused steps. Petra helps people develop resilience, stronger decision-making, and greater self-understanding. Sessions typically mix discussion, experiential exercises, and simple practices to try between meetings.
Petra is comfortable addressing topics such as attachment issues, communication problems, divorce and separation, forgiveness, and sexuality. She also supports people navigating midlife shifts, non-monogamous relationships, self-love, and women’s issues. People who choose Petra often want practical tools and a steady guide through difficult transitions.
She invites clients to work together to set realistic goals and learn skills that fit everyday life.
How Petra's Approaches Work Online
Somatic Therapy helps people notice physical sensations connected to emotions and learn gentle ways to work with those sensations. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and intense emotional reactions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed steps, which can help when making difficult life choices or coping with persistent worries. Emotionally-Focused Therapy supports couples in identifying core emotions and shifting unhelpful interaction patterns to create more stable connection.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Petra will discuss goals and preferences in early sessions and try methods that suit each person or couple. She encourages collaboration and adjustments over time so the therapy fits real needs and daily life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These formats make it easier to fit regular sessions into busy schedules and to continue work between meetings. Practical exercises, mindfulness practices, and somatic techniques can be guided remotely and adapted for at-home use.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Midlife crisis
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English