Kavitha Lobo, MSW, LMSW
Therapist
Pronouns: she/they
Language(s): English
Insurances Accepted: Blue Cross Blue Shield, Blue Care Network (including Premier Care), Blue Cross Complete, Meridian, & Washtenaw Health Plan.
Education & Training:
MSW, University of Michigan School of Social Work
Professional Interests: Kavitha provides individual therapy to adults and adolescents, parent-child relational therapy for younger children (generally ages 0-6) and their caregivers, and couples therapy. She has experience working alongside clients with a range of presenting reasons, including trauma, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, relational challenges, parent-child and family challenges, parenting guidance, perinatal adjustment, infertility and pregnancy loss, and grief. Some of her clinical interests include relational/attachment concerns, infant mental health, play therapy, and working with people of color, and people healing from intergenerational and systemic trauma.
Approach to Therapy: Kavitha's clinical approach is rooted in the necessity of a safe, open, strengths-based therapeutic relationship, which she values as the core within which healing and growth can take place. Grounding her practice within attachment-based, person-in-environment, and trauma-informed lenses, she offers clients psychoeducation, validation, normalization, contextualization, and empathic support. She has received training in Mindfulness, Psychodynamic Therapy, Internal Family Systems (parts work), Dialectic Behavioral Therapy, Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Child-Parent Psychotherapy, Parent Management Training, and Family-Focused Therapy and integrates them eclectically to best meet the unique needs of clients.
Selected Professional Experiences: Kavitha is currently completing her second year of the Post-Graduate Social Work Fellowship at Michigan Medicine's Department of Outpatient Psychiatry. Within this clinical fellowship, she has worked with pregnant and postpartum mothers in the Perinatal Clinic and with children and their caregivers in the Infant and Early Childhood Clinic. She currently facilitates the Perinatal Adjustment Group for moms who are experiencing perinatal mood and anxiety symptoms, and previously co-facilitated a Bipolar Support Group. She previousy served as a therapist at The Women's Center of Southeastern Michigan.