About Bernice
Bernice Hardman is a Licensed Master Social Worker who offers practical, down-to-earth help for people feeling overwhelmed by life. She focuses on clear skills and steady support for stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, and challenges at work or home. Bernice writes and talks plainly so parents and individuals can quickly see how therapy might fit into their lives.
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used for stress management, emotion regulation, and better communication. Narrative and trauma-focused methods help people tell their story and work through painful memories at a pace that feels manageable. Bernice brings ten years of practice in Michigan and draws on experience with parenting questions, blended family issues, and relationship communication problems.
She also supports those dealing with post-traumatic stress, codependency, workplace strain, and compassion fatigue. ADHD is listed among the concerns she addresses when it affects daily functioning and routines. Her approach centers on collaboration.
Sessions aim to build concrete tools for coping, clearer routines, and healthier responses to stress. She emphasizes the mind-body connection and helps clients identify small, realistic steps toward better balance. Sessions combine straightforward skill teaching with gentle exploration of life events.
Bernice helps people set goals, try new strategies, and adjust plans as situations change. The tone is practical, respectful, and focused on making daily life more manageable.
Therapeutic approaches and how they fit online
CBT helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors in everyday life. Online sessions can focus on building routines, planning experiments, and practicing new skills between meetings so change happens outside the session.DBT provides specific emotion regulation and interpersonal skills. It is useful for managing intense feelings, improving communication, and reducing reactive behavior, with skills practiced during video or text check-ins to reinforce learning.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, needs, and preferences and then try methods that suit the situation. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is working and what needs more attention.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for deeper conversation and skills coaching with visual cues. Phone sessions offer a simpler check-in when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and messaging make brief check-ins, skill reminders, and coaching easier to fit into a busy day. These options create flexibility so people can keep therapy going around work, parenting, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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