Norma Keech, LMSW

Norma Keech is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) practicing in Michigan with ten years of experience. She works with adults on stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma and abuse, anger, ADHD, grief, intimacy concerns, parenting, career questions, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue.

Norma helps people notice how patterns from the family they grew up in shape current behavior and relationships. She addresses family of origin issues, communication problems, codependency, control issues, and problems tied to substance use. Sessions focus on concrete changes and clearer day-to-day coping rather than labels or lengthy theory talks.

Her approach draws on client-centered techniques and cognitive behavioral methods to identify unhelpful thinking and try different responses. Mindfulness exercises and elements of dialectical behavior therapy are used to manage strong emotions and improve distress tolerance. Solution-focused techniques help set small, attainable goals for immediate change.

Norma keeps sessions practical. She works on skills for handling anger, impulse control, and guilt or shame. When grief or past sexual assault and abuse are part of the picture, she helps people move toward safer ways of remembering and relating to those experiences.

People who want clear steps to reduce compulsive behaviors, improve communication, or address family-of-origin patterns tend to find this style useful. Norma also supports those sorting career stress, intimacy concerns, and the emotional fallout of major life changes.

How her approaches translate to online sessions