About Annette
Annette Kata is an LMSW who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, and major life changes. She focuses on practical support for relationships, self-esteem, and coping during transitions. Annette aims to help clients build resilience and find meaning in difficult times.
She earned a Master of Social Work from Michigan State University and has three years of clinical experience. Her social work career began in home-based care, helping older adults and people with disabilities access services that promote independence and quality of life.
Background and approach
She later worked in medical settings supporting patients and caregivers as they moved through treatment and health systems. Annette uses a down-to-earth, compassionate style in sessions. She emphasizes self-love and acceptance as starting points.
Conversations are collaborative and focused on skills that fit each person's life. She helps clients develop clearer communication and practical coping tools. Somatic ideas are part of her practice, bringing attention to bodily experience alongside thoughts and feelings.
She also draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and client-centered approaches to shape the work. These methods are used to help people manage anxiety, improve relationships, and handle life changes.
Her background in healthcare settings gives her experience supporting people through loss, hospice and end-of-life concerns, postpartum depression, and the stress of divorce or blended family dynamics. Annette works with people in Michigan and offers sessions in English. If you want to learn more, use the Start Therapy flow to begin the matching process.
How therapeutic approaches guide online work
Somatic-informed methods pay attention to how the body holds stress and emotion, using mindful awareness of sensations to help people notice and change unhelpful patterns. This can be useful for anxiety, grief, and tension that shows up physically.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without fighting them and choosing actions that match personal values. ACT helps with worry, life transitions, and finding direction when things feel stuck.
Client-centered therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist listens closely and follows the client's lead. This approach supports self-acceptance and clarifying goals through conversation and reflection.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That decision is reviewed and adjusted as progress unfolds.
Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, whether scheduling around work, caregiving, or appointments. It can reduce travel time and help people keep continuity during transitions. The therapist's specific session formats are not listed in the biography, so please confirm available options before booking. A practical conversation about scheduling and goals usually happens during the matching and first sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English