FOCUS AREAS:
Growth After Trauma, Anxiety & Stress Management, Crisis Intervention, Performance Coaching, Anger & Impulsivity, Addiction & Substance Use
To book an initial appointment with Chris call (517) 258-0026 or click here to send a message.
Chris Acord, MA, TLLP
Therapist
Providing In-Person & Virtual Services
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About Chris
I’m passionate about providing therapy that truly centers around you — your growth, resilience, and well-being. My approach is warm, collaborative, and rooted in positive psychology, helping you build healthier coping skills, self-care habits, and strategies to bring more optimism, self-compassion, and hope into your life.
I know that processing trauma and life’s challenges can feel overwhelming, but you don’t have to do it alone. I’m here to support you while also helping you recognize and strengthen the qualities you already have—perseverance, courage, wisdom, and the ability to heal.
Chris's Introduction Video:
In this video Chris shares his ideal clients and the common symptoms they present with at different stages in life along with his strengths based, future oriented approach in therapy session.
Video Transcript:
Interviewer: Chris, talk to me a little bit about who your ideal clients are and some of the common struggles that they come into your sessions with.
Chris: All right. I work with males primarily 7 to 70. The young people I work with, it's very common that we're dealing with uh conduct in school, not being able to keep their hands to themselves, you know; kicking other students, uh walking out of class, talking back to teachers, and the parents are kind of at a loss at how to redirect their children into, you know, engaging in the classroom. So work with a lot of kids that way and it's very common for kids that are uh displaying that kind of behavior to be very defiant at home or to resist the rules at home and not be able to keep their hands off their siblings as well, um hands and feet to themselves is a struggle. And I work with a lot of parents who are just they're kind of at their wits end to how to address that. And I've been and experienced some success being able to reconnect and and redirect that behavior so um families can get back to, you know, enjoying each other more.
Interviewer: Chris, I know that you also work with uh adults as well as kids. Tell me a little bit more about what therapy looks like with the adults.
Chris: All right. I work with a male clientele primarily again in this age group and it ranges from seems to be early 20s through mid to late 50s and the topic is very commonly relationships; you know, how to communicate better, how to um meet the needs of their significant other as well as themselves in a manner that improves quality of life and connection. I think that connection is really important in a relationship and we spend a lot of time learning about how to communicate in a way that it encourages um more in-depth discovery about what the other needs and how to meet them.
Interviewer: Speaking to a potential client who's considering therapy, what would be something that you would want them to know about working with you?
Chris: All right, good question. I think I would uh probably point out that I do approach counseling a little bit different than what most people envision as traditional psychotherapy. Um, psychology is focused a lot on pathology. What's wrong? What's broken? How do we fix it? I am educated and trained to do all that and will do all of that. But I like to mix in equally uh positive psychology approaches that help a person see down the road in front of them how to build strong relationships. Uh how to love themselves, how to enjoy their life, how to feel content and fulfilled by their life. I think it's important to um be able to balance that. I always want to help a person I'm working with um deal with whatever may they may be struggling with, but I also want to do the best I can to make sure they leave a session each session uplifted as much as we can and looking forward to learning what it is uh we're going to be talking about moving forward.