Dr. Blandina Rose-willis, LPC - Therapist in Michigan

About Blandina

Dr. Blandina Rose-willis uses a client-centered approach as the foundation of her work. She focuses on listening first and helping people feel understood.

Her style is practical and straightforward, aimed at helping people handle stress, career shifts, relationship strains, and parenting and family concerns. She has three years of counseling experience across community and college settings. Early in her career she supported people leaving addiction and incarceration as they rebuilt work and life skills.

Background and approach

She later worked in university and community college counseling centers where students and community members faced homelessness, trauma, and overwhelming life changes. After completing her PhD, she moved into administrative roles where she supervised staff and taught communication and problem-solving skills. Those roles kept her connected to counseling through training, diversity consulting, and community health initiatives.

She also ran groups and workshops, including sessions about LGBTQ legal and social issues for educators. Therapy with her emphasizes practical steps and options. She believes people have the capacity to grow when they get steady support and clear guidance.

Sessions often include exploring career decisions, coping strategies for anxiety and stress, grief work, and building self-esteem. Her perspective is holistic: she considers physical health, self-care, and emotional life together. She aims to help clients develop new life skills that they can continue to use after therapy ends.

How her approaches translate to online care

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. In practice this means the therapist reflects what is said, asks questions to clarify needs, and supports the person's own goals and choices. It helps when someone feels stuck or overwhelmed and needs steady, respectful guidance.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Online sessions use simple exercises and practical steps to change patterns that feed anxiety, depression, or stress. This approach works well for career concerns, coping with life changes, and building self-esteem.

Mindfulness Therapy adds techniques that bring attention to the present moment. Short exercises and breathing practices are taught to reduce rumination and improve focus during stressful times.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with clients to decide which methods fit best for their goals and preferences, adjusting over time as needs change.

Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, keep continuity during transitions, and pick the format that feels most comfortable. Licensed professionals can still use the same listening, skills training, and exercises effectively through these formats, making progress possible without travel.

Client-Centered Therapy

The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.

Mindfulness Therapy

Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she address?

She works with a wide range of issues including career, stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship and family problems, grief, anger, self-esteem, depression, and ADHD.

What is the therapy style like?

The approach is client-centered and collaborative, with practical techniques from cognitive behavioral and solution-focused therapy and mindfulness practices when useful.

What is her background and experience?

She has three years of counseling experience and has worked in community and college settings, supporting people with addiction recovery, homelessness, trauma, and career concerns.

What credentials and location apply?

She holds LPC licensure in Michigan with license number MI LPC 6401003078 and practices from Michigan.

Which languages and international work are supported?

Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.

What session formats are available?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to meet.

How does payment and cost work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to the therapist's availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Career difficulties

Also works with

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 3 years
Licensed: Michigan
Languages: English

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