Dr. Patricia Frueh, MI Psychologist 6301008874

Dr. Patricia Frueh greets people with a calm, approachable manner. She is a Michigan psychologist with nearly three decades of clinical experience. Her style is warm and respectful, and she pays close attention to each person's strengths as well as their struggles.

She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma or problems with relationships and parenting. She also works with concerns like addictions, grief, sleep troubles, eating issues, and mood swings. Additional focuses include social anxiety, panic, family of origin problems, and questions about life purpose.

Her sessions mix practical skills with reflective conversation. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change behavior. She also draws from acceptance and commitment ideas and dialectical behavior strategies when they fit the person's goals.

Mindfulness practices are part of her work, and she can teach meditation-based tools to reduce reactivity and improve focus. When useful, she frames short-term goals and solution-focused steps to create momentum between sessions. Dr. Frueh adapts the plan to each person's needs rather than following a single formula.

People who meet with her can expect a collaborative process. She listens for resilience and builds on what already works. Her aim is to help people move toward clearer goals and more manageable daily routines.

Practical approaches and online therapy options

Dr. Frueh commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and change the behaviors that keep problems going. CBT focuses on small, testable changes that can reduce anxiety, depression and stress-related habits.

She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which teaches strategies for noticing inner experiences and committing to actions that match personal values. That approach is helpful for coping with difficult emotions and building a meaningful routine. Dialectical Behavior Therapy ideas may be used to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills for intense emotional ups and downs.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. She works with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences and day-to-day needs, and adjusts the plan if something isn’t working. The process starts with conversation and a simple plan to try for a few sessions.

Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues for skills training, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports step-by-step homework and brief updates between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain steady progress.