Gwen Keliihoomalu
Experienced Hawaii counselor for life changes
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed in
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Gwen
Gwen Keliihoomalu is a licensed mental health counselor in Hawaii with 40 years of professional experience. She focuses on practical support for people facing relationship stress, trauma and abuse, self-esteem struggles, and work-related concerns. Gwen aims to listen without judgement and meet clients where they are.
Her sessions are straightforward and goal-oriented. She adapts conversations and plans to fit each person’s needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all script. Gwen encourages small, doable steps that build confidence and help people cope with life changes and ongoing stress.
Background and approach
Over four decades of practice have given her a range of experience with mood concerns like depression and bipolar symptoms, anxiety, grief, and issues around intimacy and sexual health. She also addresses eating and sleeping problems, anger, compassion fatigue, and attention concerns such as ADHD.
Gwen has worked with people affected by adoption and foster care, abandonment and attachment issues, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and cancer-related concerns. She is familiar with family transitions including divorce, separation, and commitment questions. She treats LGBT clients with sensitivity and offers coaching-style support when useful.
Gwen encourages anyone feeling overwhelmed to take a small step toward care and complete the short matching questionnaire to begin the process.
Evidence-based techniques and flexible online care
Gwen draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear goals and practical change. One common approach emphasizes coping skills and problem-solving to reduce anxiety, manage mood swings, and improve sleep. This helps people identify small steps they can try between sessions to feel steadier each day.Another approach centers on trauma-informed care and safe pacing. It involves gently revisiting difficult experiences while building safety and coping tools first, which can reduce reactivity and improve relationships over time.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Gwen works with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and comfort level, and she adjusts plans as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy or geographically spread people. Video calls allow face-to-face connection from home, while phone sessions give a simpler audio option. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins and ongoing coaching between sessions. These formats add flexibility so therapy can fit into real life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also works with
- 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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