About Gwen
Gwen Keliihoomalu is a licensed mental health counselor with 40 years of professional experience based in Hawaii. She greets people with respect and compassion and focuses on practical steps to relieve stress and emotional pain. Gwen aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone who is worried or uncertain about reaching out.
She helps people who are struggling with relationship challenges, trauma and abuse, and self-esteem concerns. Gwen also supports those facing career stress, anxiety, grief, mood concerns such as depression and bipolar symptoms, and the everyday strain of life changes.
Background and approach
ADHD is listed among her areas of focus and she will include attention-related concerns in conversations about coping and planning. Sessions are shaped to fit each person. Gwen listens, asks about what matters most, and builds simple, concrete goals.
She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to the person’s needs and pace. Over her long career she has worked with people facing a wide range of difficulties including caregiving stress, chronic illness, body-image and eating issues, and the aftermath of domestic violence and abandonment. She also supports people dealing with intimacy struggles, commitment fears, and blended family stress.
Gwen offers multiple ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. She welcomes clients who speak English and is open to working with international clients when arrangements allow.
Practical approaches and online care
Gwen uses a mix of evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear goals and real-life change. One approach she commonly uses helps people identify unhelpful patterns in thinking and behavior, then practices small, concrete changes to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. Another approach emphasizes processing past trauma and painful experiences at a pace that feels manageable, helping reduce the ways those memories interfere with current relationships and routines.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Gwen will ask about your situation, goals, and what has or hasn’t helped before. She collaborates with each person to try methods that fit their needs and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people keep eye contact and read body language during deeper sessions. Phone sessions work well when lower bandwidth or hands-free time is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, short coaching-style support, or when a written record of strategies is helpful. These options help make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English
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