About Kelli
Kelli Trueblood-Graves is a licensed clinical social worker in New Mexico. She draws on ten years of experience to help people navigate addiction, trauma, anxiety, relationship concerns, and parenting stress. Kelli values a straightforward, respectful approach and treats each person as the expert on their own life.
Kelli uses a mix of practical skills and listening. She leans on cognitive-behavioral techniques to spot patterns that keep problems going. She also uses attachment-focused work to look at how relationships shape feelings and reactions.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing and elements of dialectical behavior therapy are tools she brings when people need help making changes or managing strong emotions. In sessions she offers clear, simple steps and space to talk things through. She works with people facing grief, body image and eating concerns, sleeping and anger issues, and the fallout of family-of-origin or blended-family struggles.
She also supports people dealing with postpartum depression, dissociation, and other trauma-related symptoms. Kelli has experience addressing addiction and substance use, domestic violence impacts, and non-traditional relationship structures such as polyamory and kink-aware concerns. She helps parents process the strain of caregiving, adoption and foster care challenges, and separation or divorce adjustments.
She provides online options including video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging to fit different routines and needs. To begin, people complete a short questionnaire that helps match them and then schedule sessions according to availability.
Approach-driven care through online sessions
Attachment-based work looks at how your close relationships shape your feelings and responses. This approach helps when patterns from early relationships affect trust, intimacy, or parenting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers simple tools to change unhelpful patterns that drive anxiety, low mood, or eating and sleep problems. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative way to build motivation for change, useful for substance concerns or when someone feels stuck and unsure about taking the next step.Kelli treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and daily life to decide which methods to try first. Changes are paced to what the person feels ready for and adjusted as new needs appear.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different routines. Video helps when seeing facial expression matters, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat is helpful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports quick reflections between sessions. These formats make it easier to schedule therapy around work, childcare, or travel while keeping the focus on concrete skills and steady progress.
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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