About Keli
Keli Karbowski is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida with 22 years of experience. She helps people who are overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and low self-esteem. Her work often focuses on breaking cycles of isolation, impulsivity, and difficult mood patterns.
Keli creates a calm space where people can talk through what hurts. She listens carefully and follows each person’s pace. Conversations focus on practical steps to manage emotions and rebuild daily routines.
Background and approach
She draws on approaches that emphasize the person’s own goals and strengths. That can mean changing unhelpful thoughts, practicing present-moment awareness, or setting small, achievable goals. The aim is to reduce symptoms and increase coping skills in everyday life.
Keli is experienced supporting people who face addiction, codependency, and trauma-related issues. She also helps with parenting stress, career strain, and relationship struggles by teaching clearer communication and boundaries. Many people come for help with compulsions, mood instability, or strong feelings of guilt and shame.
Sessions are practical and conversational. Keli uses straightforward tools you can try between meetings. She works collaboratively to find what fits each person’s life and goals.
How Keli’s Approaches Work Online
Keli often uses client-centered work to keep the focus on each person’s goals and values. That means sessions start with the client’s priorities and the therapist follows their lead while offering empathy and practical feedback. This approach helps when someone needs to feel heard and understood before making changes.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. In short practical steps, clients learn to notice unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, compulsions, and mood challenges because it offers clear exercises to practice between sessions.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Keli will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which strategies to try and adjust them as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation while phone may be easier when bandwidth is limited. Chat and text can work for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or people who prefer writing. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English