Kelli Trueblood-Graves, LCSW - Therapist in New Mexico

About Kelli

Kelli Trueblood-Graves is a licensed clinical social worker who uses a down-to-earth, person-focused approach. She centers the person’s experience and helps them build on existing strengths. Her style is practical and straightforward, aimed at making small changes that matter to daily life.

She often focuses on stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes. She also works with addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, and concerns around eating and sleeping.

Background and approach

Parenting and broader family-related concerns are part of her practice in New Mexico. Kelli blends evidence-based methods with a warm, listening stance. She draws from attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings.

She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors. She may add skills from dialectical behavior therapy when emotions feel overwhelming. Her experience includes work with adoption and foster care matters, blended family challenges, and issues related to body image and codependency.

She also has experience addressing postpartum depression, dissociation, and post-traumatic stress. These are combined with attention to sexual and relationship diversity, including polyamory and kink-related topics. Kelli holds the LCSW credential, licensed in New Mexico as NM LCSW SWB-2023-0240.

She has about 10 years of professional experience and provides services in English. Starting therapy is a collaborative step and she aims to meet people where they are.

How Kelli’s methods translate to online therapy

Attachment-based work focuses on how relationships shape feelings and reactions. Online sessions let the therapist and client talk through patterns that started in close relationships and try new ways of relating in real time. This approach can help with grief, attachment wounds, and relationship concerns.

Client-centered therapy centers the person’s experience and choices. The therapist listens deeply, follows what matters to the client, and supports self-directed goals. This method is useful when someone needs a safe space to make sense of parenting, identity, or life changes.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them. In online sessions, CBT can be used to practice new skills between meetings and track progress together.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Kelli will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That plan can shift as progress is made and new challenges arise.

Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions remove travel needs, and live chat or text messaging provide shorter touchpoints when making steady change. These options make it easier to stay consistent with therapy while juggling parenting and daily demands.

Attachment-Based Therapy

Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.

Client-Centered Therapy

The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.

Frequently asked questions

What issues does Kelli commonly help with?

She works with stress and anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy and relationship concerns, and parenting and family-related matters.

What is her general therapy style like?

Her style is person-centered and practical. She listens first, then helps people try small, concrete changes that fit their life.

How much clinical experience does she have?

Kelli has about 10 years of professional experience working in behavioral health and related settings.

Where is she licensed and based?

She is a licensed clinical social worker in New Mexico with the credential NM LCSW SWB-2023-0240.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

Are international clients accepted?

International clients are not currently accepted.

What session formats does she offer?

Sessions are available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.

How does payment and starting therapy work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Also works with

Adoption and foster care
Anger management
BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
Blended family issues
Body image
Codependency
Coping with life changes
Dissociation
Divorce and separation
Domestic violence
Drug and alcohol addiction
Eating and food-related issues
Eating disorders
Family conflicts
Family of origin issues
Grief
Intimacy-related issues
Parenting issues
Personality disorders
Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
Post-traumatic stress
Postpartum depression
Pregnancy and childbirth
Prejudice and discrimination
Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
Relationship issues
Self esteem
Self-harm
Sexual assault and abuse
Sexuality
Sleeping disorders
Stress, Anxiety
Women's issues
Young adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 10 years
Licensed: New Mexico
Languages: English

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