Selene Negrette

Selene Negrette is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) who helps adults facing strong emotions and life transitions. She focuses on concerns like anger, anxiety, stress, grief, and relationship friction. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental approach and speaks English and Spanish.

Selene works with people who feel overwhelmed by emotions or by difficult life events. She supports those coping with trauma, bereavement, family conflict, workplace strain, and caregiving stress. She also helps clients who identify as highly sensitive or empathic learn how to use sensitivity as a strength.

Her way of working centers on listening and building on each person’s strengths. Selene uses client-centered methods alongside practical skills from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches. She also draws on mindfulness and somatic techniques to help people notice and manage feelings in the body.

Over 17 years she has guided adults through grief, trauma, and relationship change. Her sessions aim to help people find clearer direction and daily strategies for coping. She encourages realistic, manageable steps rather than big, sudden shifts.

Sessions are offered in English and Spanish. She practices in Michigan and uses a supportive, strength-based style that values each person’s experience. To begin, readers are invited to follow the platform’s process to match and schedule a first visit.

How her approaches fit into online work

Many clients find cognitive behavioral work helpful for changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT involves identifying thought patterns, testing them, and trying small behavioral experiments to see what changes. It can help with anger, anxiety, depression, and workplace stress.

Dialectical behavior therapy focuses on building emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clear communication skills. DBT-style skills practice can reduce reactive behavior and help people respond more effectively when feeling overwhelmed. Mindfulness methods teach simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase awareness of bodily sensations.

Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and together they will decide which methods to try first. Techniques can be adjusted over time based on what feels most helpful.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, avoid travel time, and try shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people practice skills in real situations and bring examples from daily life into sessions.