An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the soul of the child.

C.G. Jung

Child Therapist In Ann Arbor

Welcome! I’m Karen Nicholson-Muth, a children’s clinical social worker in Ann Arbor, MI.  I specialize in anxiety disorders. I also have extensive training and enjoy treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, and mood disorders.

I encourage you, as a potential patient, to make informed decisions when choosing a therapist. It’s important that the therapist fits your needs, is trained, and utilizes evidence-based practices.

I decided to create this website because children and adolescents enduring anxiety disorders and other childhood/ adolescent mental health disorders are statistically much more likely to develop physical and other mental health disabilities as well as substance abuse and dependence in adulthood.  The mental health and physical consequences of anxiety disorders decrease overall individual, systemic and economic functioning. Thus, one of my primary goals is to educate parents, providers, teachers, students, and other family members about the symptoms of anxiety disorders and encourage parents, children, and teens to seek the best earliest interventional treatment possible. Treatment should include parental consultations, school consultations, child/adolescent and family focused evidence-based therapies.

Throughout this website, I outline how to detect early symptoms of anxiety and depressive symptoms in your child and/or teenager, as well as early detection of symptoms for college students.  In addition, I have information pertaining to parental guidance and include highly recommended books for parents, children, and adolescents.

This website also provides you with background about me as a clinical child psychotherapist, contact information, insurance and billing coverage, as well as information about scheduling an appointment. Please read through it and contact me if you have any questions.

Thank you! I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Karen Nicholson-Muth, LMSW, LLC