Kellie Kizis
Partnering for practical family life support
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kellie
Kellie Kizis is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida with more than 15 years of experience in social work and counseling. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and parenting concerns. Her approach is warm and interactive, and she aims to partner with people to find practical steps forward.
She has supported clients coping with medical diagnoses, caregiving roles, and changes related to aging. That background comes from work in hospitals, hospice, and a fitness center.
Background and approach
This experience informs how she talks about body wellness and chronic health challenges. Kellie uses a mix of tools in sessions. She draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to change unhelpful thinking patterns.
She also uses mindfulness practices to help people manage stress and stay present. Her style is collaborative and nonjudgmental. She helps clients set clear goals, try small experiments between sessions, and adjust plans when needed.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques often guide those conversations. She also brings trauma-informed care for people who have survived abuse or other traumatic events. That work emphasizes safety, pacing, and building coping skills before tackling painful memories.
Kellie values practical supports as well as emotional healing. She can discuss coping skills for sleep, eating, parenting, and career stress. The aim is steady progress and workable changes that fit each person’s life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful relationship. It gives people space to tell their story and helps them find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Kellie uses these approaches to address common family and life stresses. She will work with each person to choose methods that match goals and preferences. That decision is collaborative - the therapist and client discuss what feels most useful and adjust as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. These options make it easier to keep therapy regular when life is busy or when travel is difficult. The different formats also allow people to use the way of communicating that feels most comfortable for them.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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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