About Cecelia
Cecelia Salamone is a licensed professional counselor with 25 years of experience in Michigan. She focuses on practical, everyday support for people facing anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, and self-esteem struggles. Her approach is down-to-earth and goal-focused.
She explains things plainly and helps clients take small steps that add up. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that keep problems stuck. Sessions often involve trying new behaviors between meetings and checking what works.
Background and approach
Cecelia pays attention to how stress, life changes, and past hurts affect daily routines and relationships. Cecelia also addresses concerns that come with long-term health issues, caregiver stress, and blended family challenges. She helps people talk through communication problems, commitment worries, and the fallout from separation or divorce.
Practical tools and clear strategies are common parts of her work. Many clients come for help with intimacy-related issues, anger, career decisions, or coping with major life transitions. She supports people dealing with guilt, shame, codependency, and eating or body-image related concerns.
The focus is on making steady, manageable progress. Sessions are offered in English and are structured to fit a person's life and goals. Cecelia aims to make therapy understandable and useful from the first meeting.
She invites people to start with a short intake and develop a plan together.
How CBT and online care work together
Many of Cecelia's sessions use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a hands-on approach that helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to see what improves mood and relationships. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life changes.Her online practice brings this same practical work to video, phone, chat, or text formats. Video calls let people practice new communication skills and role-play with visual feedback. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for short check-ins, tracking progress, or when someone prefers writing things out.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Cecelia collaborates with each person to decide whether CBT fits their needs, and she adjusts methods based on goals and what feels helpful. That collaborative planning helps make sessions relevant and manageable.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels with technology. It can reduce travel time and make it easier to fit sessions into a workday or caregiving routine. The variety of formats makes it possible to match the style of contact to what someone needs that week.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English