Karlee Shave , LMSW

Karlee Shave is a licensed master social worker in Michigan with six years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by listening, offering practical tools, and adapting to each person's needs. Karlee works with adults and young people on concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and LGBT-related issues.

Karlee aims to make sessions feel warm and approachable. She creates space for people to share thoughts and feelings without judgment. Clients help set the pace and goals, while she offers strategies and support to meet them.

Her approach blends attention to relationships, present problems, and practical thinking skills. That means talking about how past attachments shape current patterns, using straightforward techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and centering the client's experience in every session. She also brings experience with body image, caregiver stress, attachment and abandonment issues, and navigating family-of-origin problems.

Sessions include problem-focused skill building and open conversation. Karlee helps people break big problems into manageable steps. She works collaboratively to identify small changes that add up over time.

People who reach out can expect clear communication about goals and options. Karlee supports those who want guidance, practical tools, and an empathetic listener while they work through life transitions and emotional challenges.

How Karlee's approaches work online

Karlee uses Attachment-Based principles to look at how early relationship patterns affect current emotions and behaviors, which can help people who struggle with trust, abandonment, or feeling disconnected. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening closely and responding to each person's priorities so sessions feel collaborative and respectful. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, offers structured tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Karlee will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and together they will try methods that fit the situation. She adjusts techniques over time so the work stays relevant and practical.

Online therapy with Karlee is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video is helpful when visual cues matter, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is an issue, and messaging or chat suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it simpler to schedule sessions around work, school, caregiving, and everyday life.