Online Therapy for Adults Across Michigan: Depth-Oriented, Trauma-Informed Care
You don’t have to keep holding everything together by yourself. If you’ve been moving through life with chronic stress, emotional numbness, trauma patterns, or a quiet sense that you’re not fully inhabiting your own life… you’re not alone. Many people find their way to Hillside Counseling when something inside starts asking for more—more grounding, more clarity, more connection, more aliveness. Therapy here is an invitation to come back home to yourself.
Hillside Counseling provides online therapy for adults across Michigan, offering trauma-informed, somatic, and experiential care for people who are ready for deeper, long-lasting change. Together, we move at the pace of your nervous system—never forcing, always listening—with presence, curiosity, and care.
Telehealth only • Self-pay practice • Adults 18+ • Serving all of Michigan
The People Who Find Their Way Here
Many of the people who come here are skilled at coping, performing, and taking care of others—yet feel like something essential is missing when it comes to their own inner world. Therapy at Hillside is not about fixing what’s “wrong” with you. It’s about making room for the parts of you that have been working overtime to keep you safe, and gently helping them not have to do that job alone anymore.
You might notice yourself in some of these experiences:
- You feel numb, shut down, or disconnected from your emotions and from yourself.
- You’re often overwhelmed, stuck in freeze, or cycling through shutdown and burnout.
- You’ve been carrying trauma, complex trauma, or attachment wounds for a long time, and they still show up in your body and relationships.
- You identify as ADHD or strongly suspect it, and the emotional intensity, shame, or inner chaos feels especially loud.
- Anxiety leaves you constantly bracing for what might go wrong, even when nothing specific is wrong.
- You’re exhausted from being the one who always “has it together” while feeling like you’re falling apart inside.
- You notice familiar patterns repeating in relationships, but it’s hard to name exactly what’s happening—or how to change it.
- You’re high-functioning on the outside, but on the inside, you feel disconnected, depleted, or done.
Why Depth-Oriented Therapy Helps
There’s a kind of change that doesn’t come from insight alone. It comes from being met—fully, gently, and consistently—in the places where you’ve had to go silent or small.
At Hillside, therapy focuses on:
- Experiential and somatic work that helps you reconnect with your body’s wisdom
- Attachment-focused healing that integrates old relational patterns
- Trauma-informed pacing and safety so nothing moves faster than your system can handle
- Neurodivergence-affirming support that honors the way your brain actually works
- Evidenced-informed approaches that blend depth with grounding
This kind of therapy is not about strategies or surface-level coping skills (though we can use them when helpful). It’s about healing where the real hurt lives—and accessing the parts of you that know how to grow, repair, and reconnect.
How Therapy Feels At Hillside Counseling
The way therapy feels matters just as much as the tools we use. People often describe therapy at Hillside as:
- Slow enough to actually notice what’s happening inside instead of rushing past it.
- Safe enough to bring in the parts of your story you’ve learned to hide or minimize.
- Structured enough that you don’t feel like you’re just venting without direction.
- Spacious enough for real emotional movement and not just surface-level coping.
- Collaborative, warm, and deeply human, rather than clinical or detached.
This is an LGBTQ+ affirming, trauma-informed, neurodivergence-affirming, and non-religious space. Your identities and lived experiences are respected and honored.
You won’t be pushed to talk about anything you’re not ready for—and you won’t be treated as a diagnosis or a collection of symptoms. We’re interested in you as a whole person, including the parts that have had to stay hidden to survive.
Areas of Focus
Hillside Counseling offers depth-oriented online therapy for adults across Michigan, with particular focus on:
Trauma Therapy
Explore how trauma has shaped your nervous system, relationships, and sense of self; and gently create new safety, connection, and aliveness.
Adult ADHD Therapy
A space to explore the emotional and relational side of ADHD beyond productivity tips and time hacks; so you can better understand yourself.
PTSD & Complex Trauma
Support for the impact of ongoing or early-life trauma, including chronic overwhelm, emotional flashbacks, and difficulties trusting or feeling safe.
Anxiety Therapy
Work with the parts of you that are always bracing for impact, learn how to listen to their fears and build calmness, clarity, and confidence.
Depression Therapy
Support for feeling stuck, numb, or disconnected, with an emphasis on gentle reconnection rather than pressure to “snap out of it.”
Somatic Therapy
Body-based, trauma-informed work that helps you notice and listen to the physical and emotional sensations in your body that lead to healing.
Brainspotting
A focused, brain- and body-based therapy approach that can support processing of overwhelming experiences while staying grounded.
Relational Wounds
Deep work around feeling too much, not enough, or fundamentally unlovable, and healing the relational patterns that formed in early emotional environments.
Emotional Disconnection
For when it feels like the volume has been turned down on your emotional life, and you want to gently reconnect without becoming overwhelmed.
Overwhelm Patterns
Understanding and working with freeze, shutdown, and collapse states, so your nervous system has more options than “push through” or “check out.”
High-Functioning Burnout
Support for people who are highly capable on the outside but exhausted and depleted inside, working toward a more sustainable way of living.
My Approach: Depth-Oriented, Experiential, and Somatic
Therapy with Hillside Counseling is grounded in the belief that you already carry an innate drive toward healing and connection. Our work is about creating the conditions where that natural movement can become possible again.
We draw from experiential, somatic, attachment-based, and neuroscience-informed approaches to support you at the level of your whole system—mind, body, and relationships.
AEDP
AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy) is a relational, emotion-focused therapy that trusts your nervous system’s capacity to heal in the presence of safe, attuned connection. Instead of just analyzing your experiences, we gently explore what you’re feeling in the moment—together—so that emotions that once felt unbearable can be experienced, processed, and integrated with support.
Somatic and Experiential Work
Somatic and experiential therapy invite your body into the conversation. That might look like noticing sensations, impulses, or tension; tracking moments of ease or softening; or experimenting with small shifts in posture or breath. We stay curious about what your body is telling us, not to force change, but to honor the wisdom it’s been carrying on your behalf.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Attachment-based work helps us understand how your earliest relationships shaped the way you expect others to respond to you—and the way you respond to yourself. In therapy, we pay attention to how these patterns show up between us in real time, offering new, healing experiences of being seen, cared for, and not abandoned when difficult feelings arise.
Neuroscience-Informed Care
Our work is informed by what we know about the nervous system, trauma, and emotional processing. Rather than pushing you to “just try harder,” we respect your system’s limits and work with them. This can involve learning how to notice signs of activation or shutdown, finding ways to ground and reorient, and gradually expanding your capacity to be with more of your experience without becoming overwhelmed.
Online Therapy Across Michigan
Hillside Counseling is a telehealth-only practice, which means all sessions take place online for adults living anywhere in Michigan.
Online therapy can be especially supportive if you:
- Prefer the comfort and familiarity of your own space.
- Have a busy schedule or limited time between responsibilities.
- Live in an area where it’s hard to find a therapist who feels like a good fit.
- Feel more regulated when you don’t have to drive to an appointment or sit in a waiting room.
Hillside Counseling currently serves clients in communities such as:
- Ann Arbor
- Royal Oak
- Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills
- And many other cities and towns throughout Michigan
Wherever you’re located in the state, you can access depth-oriented, trauma-informed therapy from a private, secure space that works for you.
Quick Answers to Common Questions
Is online therapy effective?
Yes. For many people and many concerns, online therapy is as effective as in-person therapy. What matters most is the quality of the therapeutic relationship and the fit between you and your therapist. Telehealth can be especially supportive for depth-oriented work because you’re often in your own familiar environment, which can make it easier for your nervous system to settle. If you’re curious about the research on telehealth and mental health treatment, organizations like the American Psychological Association share accessible summaries of current findings.
Do you accept insurance?
Hillside Counseling is a self-pay practice and does not bill insurance directly. If you have out-of-network benefits, you may be able to request partial reimbursement from your insurance company. I can provide a superbill (an itemized receipt) that you can submit to your insurer. It’s always a good idea to call your insurance provider and ask specifically about your out-of-network mental health benefits for online therapy.
Who do you work with?
I work with adults 18 and older who live anywhere in the state of Michigan. Many of my clients are navigating trauma, complex PTSD, ADHD, anxiety, depression, burnout, emotional numbness, or nervous system overwhelm. I am LGBTQ+ affirming, trauma-informed, neurodivergence-affirming, and welcoming to all spiritual, cultural, or faith-based backgrounds. If you’re unsure whether your situation fits what I offer, we can talk about it together during a free consultation.
What happens in the first session?
The first session is a chance for both of us to slow down and get a sense of what it’s like to be in the same “room” together, even if that room is on a screen.
We’ll talk about:
- What’s bringing you to therapy now.
- What you’ve already tried and what has or hasn’t helped.
- What you’re hoping might feel different in your life or inside yourself.
- Any preferences, identities, access needs, or boundaries that feel important to name.
You’re welcome to share as much or as little as feels right. We’ll move at a pace that respects your nervous system. There’s also space for you to ask questions about my approach and for us to decide together whether this feels like a good fit.