About Gwen
Gwen Kittell is a licensed clinical social worker in Arizona who helps people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, and trauma. She uses a straightforward, supportive style to help people manage strong emotions and regain control over daily life. Gwen often works with issues around self-esteem, women's concerns, grief, and intimacy-related struggles.
She offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Gwen draws on about 11 years of clinical experience as an LCSW to guide sessions.
Background and approach
She blends practical tools with time to talk so people can make real changes between meetings. That can mean learning new coping skills, changing unhelpful thinking, or working through painful memories at a pace that feels manageable. Her work often focuses on clear goals like improving sleep, reducing substance use, managing impulses, or repairing communication patterns.
She also supports people dealing with parenting stress, career transitions, and compassion fatigue. Gwen pays attention to attachment patterns, body image, codependency, and issues that feed guilt and shame. In sessions she follows a collaborative, client-centered approach.
She partners with each person to set goals and try methods that fit their situation. Techniques may include short-term problem solving, mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity, and narrative work to reframe difficult experiences. People who choose Gwen can expect a calm, direct presence and practical steps to try between sessions.
To begin they use the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling.
How Gwen’s Methods Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and collaboration. The therapist helps people set goals and chooses steps that feel comfortable, which can be useful for issues like low self-esteem, life transitions, and relationship concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses simple experiments and practice assignments to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns of behavior.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, known as EMDR, helps people process painful memories. It can be used when trauma or post-traumatic stress symptoms get in the way of daily life, and it is delivered carefully and at the client’s pace.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Gwen works together with each person to decide which methods to try first, then adjusts based on how well techniques fit their goals and comfort level. This collaborative planning helps make progress feel achievable.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people have focused conversations much like an in-person session. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing skill practice, and timely support between meetings. These options give flexibility so therapy can fit into everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English