Jodi Luster, LMSW
Michigan · 20 years in practice
Jodi Luster is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) based in Michigan who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction challenges, and life transitions.
License and registration
- LMSW, Michigan
- 6801087968 · expires October 2028
- NPI
- 1083732358 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Jodi
Jodi Luster is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) based in Michigan who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction challenges, and life transitions. She speaks English and welcomes international clients. Her background blends clinical work and coaching to help people build practical skills and steadier routines.
Jodi draws on twenty years in human services. She has provided case management in community mental health, worked in residential programs, supported people through home health and hospice, and helped launch outpatient substance support programs.
Background and approach
Her career also includes nonprofit leadership, business consulting, and life and spiritual coaching. In sessions she focuses on the whole person. Conversations look at how work, relationships, health, and meaning interact.
She uses approaches that center the client and aim to strengthen everyday coping and communication skills. Her practice includes Systemic ideas, attachment-based perspectives, client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and emotionally-focused methods. That mix helps with relationship patterns, attachment concerns, and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
People who come to Jodi often want concrete tools and space to make different choices. She emphasizes finding balance and building skills to manage anxiety, sleep problems, compassion fatigue, and other concerns. Outside of practice she enjoys cooking, travel, and adventurous activities like zip lining and skydiving.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Jodi lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Jodi names
- Systemic Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapeutic approaches adapt to online care
Systemic therapy looks at patterns between people and parts of life. In an online session this means mapping how work, relationships, and routines interact, and figuring out small changes that can shift those patterns over time. Attachment-based therapy focuses on connection and safety in relationships; online work explores how past bonding shapes current relationships and helps build different ways of reaching out and repairing strain.Client-centered therapy puts the client's goals at the center. The therapist listens closely and follows what matters most to the person seeking help. Together the therapist and client decide which approaches to use, adjusting methods as goals and circumstances evolve in a collaborative way.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to work through these approaches. Video calls are helpful for face-to-face conversations and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people exchange thoughts between sessions, try brief exercises, or check in when scheduling a longer meeting is difficult. These options make it easier to maintain regular contact and keep momentum while exploring change.
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Questions people ask
What issues does Jodi commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, addiction concerns, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, career stress, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and coping with life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is person-centered and practical. Sessions focus on how daily life, relationships, and thinking patterns connect, with tools to change unhelpful habits.
How much experience does she have?
She has 20 years of experience in human services, including community mental health, residential programs, home health and hospice, and program development.
What credentials and region apply to this clinician?
She is a Licensed Master Social Worker, LMSW, practicing in Michigan.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are offered?
Therapy is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does cost and scheduling work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions are delivered through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What steps do I take to begin?
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