Antoinette Peterson

Relief from suffering — not just insight about it — sits at the center of Antoinette Peterson’s work. An LMSW practicing in Highland, Michigan, she brings more than two decades of clinical experience to individuals, couples, and families navigating anxiety, depression, PTSD, grief, eating disorders, and the aftermath of trauma. Her training at the University of Michigan grounded her in a range of evidence-based methods, and she continues to draw on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, and Family Systems approaches — selecting and combining them according to what each person actually needs.

Peterson’s clinical style is professional but unpretentious: direct, warm, and interactive in a way that helps people feel settled enough to do real work. For clients who find their anxiety spiking every time a notification arrives, CBT offers concrete tools for interrupting those automatic response loops and building steadier habits. Treatment here is never templated — the pace, focus, and methods shift with the individual.

She works with people who are quietly overwhelmed, those managing long-standing family wounds, and those who have simply reached the point where something has to change. Online sessions are available. Peterson’s view, earned through both professional practice and personal life, is that change is genuinely possible — and that hope is not a platitude but a clinical starting point.