About Kellie
Kellie Kizis is a Florida licensed clinical social worker with more than 15 years of experience. She draws on hospital, hospice, and community work to support people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and ADHD. Kellie uses straightforward, practical methods and a warm, interactive manner to help people find better ways forward.
She describes her style as nonjudgmental and collaborative. Sessions focus on identifying immediate concerns and building small, doable steps to address them.
Background and approach
Therapy can include goal-setting, coping strategies, and mindfulness practices tailored to the person's daily life. Kellie has worked with people managing medical issues, caregiving responsibilities, body image and eating concerns, and the stress that comes from major life changes. She also assists those dealing with career strain, compassion fatigue, and the effects of trauma and loss.
These experiences shape how she helps people organize practical routines and supports. Her background includes social work in hospitals, hospice settings, and a fitness center, which informs a whole-person outlook. She combines traditional talk therapy with some holistic practices she uses personally, such as breathing work and relaxation techniques.
Kellie partners with clients to create plans that fit their goals and rhythms. She welcomes international clients and conducts sessions in English. People interested in starting can expect clear steps for scheduling and beginning work together.
Approaches that fit everyday life and online care
Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person's own goals and experience. The therapist listens, reflects, and works with the client to shape sessions around what matters most to them. This approach helps when someone needs emotional support or clearer decision-making.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior. It involves practical exercises and small experiments to change unhelpful thinking and build new habits. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and managing stressors like work or sleep problems.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Kellie collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as progress and challenges arise.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and deeper conversational work, while phone sessions can be quicker to join and require less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging can help with brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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