Jay VanDyke (they/her)

LLMSW
Accepting Clients

You’re not broken. You’re human. I offer space for finding meaning, growth, and healing; especially when life feels like too much.

Clinical Social Worker in Plymouth, MI

Services
  • Individual
  • Couples
  • Adolescent/Teen

About My Clients

Many of my clients are LGBTQ+ and/or neurodivergent youth, adults, and older adults navigating identity, relationships, trauma, or life transitions. They often arrive carrying stories that don’t fit into neat categories, and that’s exactly where our work begins. Whether you're facing grief, anxiety, disconnection, or simply feeling stuck, I offer a space that honors your full self and respects your personal goals, values, and lived experience.

My Background and Approach

My work is primarily humanistic, centering on the client first. I draw from a variety of practice perspectives including narrative, psychodynamic, cognitive, and behavioral, but I don’t believe in rigid formulas. I believe healing happens when we feel truly seen and accepted for our whole selves. I bring both professional training and lived experience to my work, and I’m especially attuned to clients whose identities, stories, or struggles have been marginalized or misunderstood. Whether you’re navigating grief, identity, chronic stress, neurodivergence, or just trying to make sense of your life, our work will be collaborative and rooted in curiosity and compassion. You set the pace. I’ll offer reflection, insight, and support as you explore your own meaning and direction. Above all, I aim to create space where complexity is welcomed, and where your full self is not only allowed, but valued.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I'm only sitting on this side of the office because I've been through my own challenges and found meaning in helping others navigate their own. I truly believe that each and every person I meet is the expert of their own experience and that our personal narratives hold powerful significance. While I am a member of of the LGBTQ+ community and an advocate for social justice; in my office, I bring that same energy to bear in advocating for all of my clients and the issues affecting their lives. As previously mentioned, I am a member of the LGBTQ+ community, a volunteer, and an advocate for social justice. I also believe in the power of creative expression, our natural environment, social relationships, and education. I'm a passionate lifelong learner, a partner, an artist, a friend, an enduring optimist, and so many other things. I lean into these identities and interests to add real human perspective and nuance to my work with clients.

Techniques I Use

Other Techniques
  • Attachment Theory
  • Existential Therapy
  • Humanistic Therapy
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Psychodynamic Therapy
  • Integrative Therapy

Issues I Treat

Specialties
Burnout Gender Identity Therapy Relationship Issues
Other Issues
  • Abuse
  • Addiction
  • ADHD Therapists
  • Anxiety
  • Attachment
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Bipolar
  • Body Image Issues
  • Burnout
  • Codependency
  • Depression
  • Domestic Violence or Intimate Partner Violence
  • Family Conflict
  • Gender Identity Therapy
  • Grief or Loss
  • Historical/ Intergenerational Trauma
  • LGBTQ-Friendly Therapists
  • Marriage Counseling
  • Polyamorous and Open Relationships
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Relationship Issues
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-Harm
  • Sexual Abuse or Assault
  • Sexual Problems
  • Spirituality
  • Suicidal Thoughts
  • Systemic Oppression Therapy
  • Teen Issues
Insurance Plans Accepted
  • Aetna
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS)
  • United Healthcare
  • Molina
  • Tricare East
  • Blue Care Network
  • Blue Cross Complete
  • HAP Midwest Health Plan
  • Priority Health

At A Glance

  • Experience: 1 year of practice
  • Languages: English
  • Rate: $165/session

Info

Email Jay
Transformational Choices
9409 Haggerty Road
Plymouth, MI 48170

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