About Kirt
Kirt Baab is a licensed master social worker with 37 years of clinical experience. He practices from Michigan and brings long experience in settings such as addiction treatment, hospital outpatient clinics, social service agencies, and schools. Kirt focuses on the person, not on theory, and centers sessions on the client's needs and goals.
His background includes work with people across many cultural backgrounds and life stages. That experience informs a flexible style that adapts to each person's situation.
Background and approach
He uses practical skills to help reduce emotional suffering and end painful habits. Kirt blends body-aware work with relational approaches and talking therapies. He draws on somatic insight to notice how stress shows up in the body alongside attachment and client-centered methods.
He also uses cognitive and behavioral tools when they fit a person's goals. In sessions clients practice skills for managing anxiety, mood swings, cravings, and difficult memories. Kirt aims to lengthen the time between panic or high distress and to make communication easier with people who matter.
He offers coaching elements when a client wants focused life or career direction. People contact him for help with grief, trauma, depression, addictions, ADHD, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, chronic pain, and career stress. He teaches skills to build resilience and to reduce the overall intensity of emotional pain.
To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.
Approaches that combine body awareness and practical skills
Somatic work focuses on how stress and emotions appear in the body. It helps people notice physical sensations and use gentle body-based techniques to reduce tension and reactivity, which can be useful for trauma, anxiety, and chronic stress.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and how early connections affect current trust and communication. This approach helps people recognize relational habits and try new ways of connecting that feel safer and clearer.
Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person's goals and experiences. The therapist follows the client's lead, offers empathy, and helps the person find their own solutions for problems like depression, life transitions, or low self-esteem.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. That plan can change as progress is made and new priorities emerge.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to continue work between meetings. Many people find the variety of online options helps them stay consistent with skill practice and keep momentum toward their goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English