Hello, I’m Noel K. Gladding, LLMSW, a Michigan licensed clinical therapist specializing in therapy for high-achieving professionals, anxiety, OCD, burnout, perfectionism, trauma, relationship stress, and women’s emotional health. I work with students, adults, couples, and professionals who often appear successful externally while feeling overwhelmed, emotionally exhausted, disconnected, or stuck internally.
I’m also a mom of two teenage daughters, small horse farm owner, wellness and nutrition enthusiast, and life-long animal and nature lover. My professional background includes more than 20 years of experience across mental health, crisis work, hospital systems, inpatient maternal care, ER psychiatric evaluations, MDHHS, and private practice psychotherapy. These experiences, along with my own personal growth journey, shape the grounded, authentic, compassionate, and experienced approach I bring to therapy.
I especially enjoy supporting high-achieving women and professionals struggling with chronic stress, over-functioning, people-pleasing, emotional burnout, relationship difficulties, and nervous system dysregulation. I also provide support related to women’s mental health, including perinatal experiences, motherhood, hormonal changes, cycle-related mood symptoms, and the emotional impact of carrying the mental and emotional load many women silently manage every day.
My approach is integrative, trauma-informed, and focused on both present symptoms and the deeper root causes underneath them. While symptom relief is important, I believe lasting healing comes from understanding how past experiences, trauma, attachment patterns, chronic stress, and nervous system conditioning continue to impact emotions, behaviors, relationships, and overall wellbeing. My goal is to help clients move beyond survival mode and lifelong cycles of symptom/medication management by building greater self-awareness, emotional regulation, healthier relationships, and a more balanced, connected, and fulfilling life.
Support for chronic stress, generalized anxiety, panic symptoms, intrusive thoughts, OCD patterns, emotional exhaustion, and nervous system dysregulation. I work with individuals experiencing high-functioning anxiety, overthinking, perfectionism, and the pressure to constantly perform.
Specialized trauma therapy for adults working through PTSD, childhood trauma, attachment wounds, grief, and painful relationship experiences. Treatment may include EMDR, somatic-based approaches, and relational therapy to support deeper emotional processing and healing at the root level.
Support for professionals, healthcare workers, caregivers, entrepreneurs, and perfectionists experiencing burnout, anxiety, imposter syndrome, emotional overload, and chronic self-pressure. Therapy focuses on helping high-functioning individuals step out of survival mode and reconnect with balance and clarity.
Couples counseling focused on Gottman Method, communication breakdown, conflict cycles, trust repair, emotional disconnection, and strengthening secure attachment. Support is tailored for couples navigating stress, parenting strain, or major life transitions.
Support for pregnancy, postpartum adjustment, postpartum anxiety, postpartum depression, identity shifts, motherhood overwhelm, and emotional transitions into parenthood. Trauma-informed care for early motherhood and beyond.
Support for the mental health impact of hormonal shifts, perimenopause, menstrual cycle-related mood changes (including PMDD), thyroid and metabolic health stressors, sleep disruption, fatigue, chronic stress physiology, and mind-body emotional regulation. Focus on how biological and emotional systems interact.
Psychodynamic Therapy: A depth-oriented approach that explores how unconscious patterns, early life experiences, and relational dynamics shape current thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Through insight and the therapeutic relationship, you gain a deeper understanding of yourself and work toward lasting emotional change.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): A structured, trauma-focused therapy that helps your brain reprocess distressing memories so they feel less emotionally charged and disruptive in daily life. EMDR uses bilateral stimulation (such as guided eye movements or tapping) while you safely recall aspects of difficult experiences, allowing the nervous system to integrate and “unstick” memories that may still feel present or overwhelming. Over time, this process can reduce symptoms of trauma, anxiety, and emotional reactivity, while supporting the development of more adaptive, grounded, and compassionate beliefs about yourself and your experiences.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): An evidence-based therapy approach that helps you identify and shift unhelpful thought patterns, emotional responses, and behaviors in order to improve coping, emotional well-being, and daily functioning.
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): An evidence-based, attachment-focused approach that helps you better understand your emotions, relationship patterns, and core emotional needs. Rooted in the understanding that humans are wired for connection, EFIT helps you move beyond survival strategies such as anxiety, emotional shutdown, people-pleasing, or self-criticism and develop a stronger, more secure relationship with yourself and others. Through a compassionate and experiential process, you learn to process difficult emotions, heal attachment wounds, and create lasting emotional change.
Somatic Therapy: Focuses on the connection between your mind and body, helping you process stress and trauma through increased awareness of physical sensations, nervous system responses, and embodied emotional experiences.
Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy: A relationship-based approach to therapy that incorporates guided interactions with horses to support emotional healing, self-awareness, and personal growth. Horses naturally respond to human emotions and nervous system cues, helping you better understand patterns related to trust, boundaries, anxiety, connection, and emotional regulation. Sessions can offer a grounding, deeply authentic experience that supports healing in ways traditional talk therapy alone sometimes cannot.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An evidence-based therapy that helps you relate differently to difficult thoughts and feelings by building psychological flexibility. Rather than trying to eliminate distress, ACT focuses on accepting internal experiences while taking meaningful, values-based action toward the life you want to live.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: A goal-oriented, strengths-based approach that emphasizes building solutions rather than analyzing problems in depth. It helps you identify what is already working, clarify preferred outcomes, and take small, practical steps toward meaningful change by focusing on strengths, resources, and possibilities in the present and future.
Attachment Theory and Relational Therapy: Focuses on how early relationships and life experiences shape emotional patterns, self-worth, and connection with others, helping you build more secure, authentic, and fulfilling relationships.
Gottman Method (couples): A research-based approach to couples therapy designed to strengthen connection, improve communication, and help partners navigate conflict in healthier, more productive ways. Using practical tools and evidence-based interventions, this method helps couples build trust, deepen emotional intimacy, and create more stable, supportive relationships.
As your therapist, my role is to walk alongside you, whether you’re healing, growing, strengthening your relationships, or all of the above. Together we’ll choose approaches that feel supportive, empowering, and create real, meaningful results.
If you feel drawn to working together, I’d love to connect by phone, email, text, or social media to explore whether we’re a good fit for your personal journey.
Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions, would like more information, or would like to schedule a complimentary consultation or visit. BCBS and Priority Health insurances can be billed for in-person/office and telehealth sessions, with equine sessions billed private pay at this time (sliding scale options available).
At the heart of this work is a simple goal: helping you feel more grounded in yourself, more connected in your relationships, and less like you’re constantly bracing for impact. Whether we meet in the office, online, or out in the barn, therapy here is about helping you come back to yourself; not the version of you that’s surviving, but the one underneath all of that.
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