Kerri Brown
Practical counseling for parenting and life change
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kerri
Kerri Brown is a licensed mental health counselor in Hawaii who focuses on helping people facing parenting stress, relationship strain, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She works with individuals who want clearer goals, more self-compassion, or practical ways to manage stress and difficult emotions. Kerri keeps language simple and aims for straightforward steps that a busy parent can try between sessions.
Her counseling style is warm and direct. She builds trust first and then looks at daily habits and thoughts that get in the way.
Background and approach
Kerri uses cognitive strategies and mindfulness to help people notice automatic thoughts and step back from them. That way clients can make choices instead of reacting on impulse. Kerri trained with a master's degree in Counselor Education from the University of Alaska, Anchorage, and holds the Hawaii Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential, HI LMHC MHC-527.
She began working in mental health in 2007 and has about 12 years of professional experience since earning clinical licensure. Her background includes work in inpatient teen treatment, group homes for adults, community support for justice-involved young adults, and school-based behavioral health. Those roles shaped her practical focus on small, doable steps that build momentum toward bigger goals.
She often helps people with ADHD, addiction concerns, grief, anger, and issues around intimacy and self-worth. Kerri also supports clients exploring life purpose and self-love. Sessions aim to identify helpful behaviors, change patterns that cause suffering, and set goals that fit each person's life.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where clients lead the conversation and the therapist reflects and clarifies what matters most. This approach helps people feel heard and gradually notice what they want to change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches concrete skills to identify automatic thoughts and test them with real-life actions. It is useful for addressing anxiety, depression, and unhelpful behavior patterns by breaking problems into manageable steps.
Solution-Focused Therapy looks for small changes that move a person toward their goals and emphasizes practical strategies to try between sessions. It pairs well with CBT by keeping work goal-directed and actionable.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist and client will decide together which methods feel most helpful based on the client's needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions can shift over time as goals change.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit counseling around parenting, work, and busy days, and they allow ongoing contact and short check-ins as needed.
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.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English
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