About Kellie
Kellie Kizis is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida with 15 years of experience as a social worker and counselor. She has supported people facing depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, and parenting concerns. She also has experience with medical and body wellness issues from work in hospitals, hospice, and a fitness center.
She uses a warm and interactive style that avoids judgment. Sessions focus on partnership - talking through problems, making plans, and finding small steps forward.
Background and approach
Kellie blends practical skills with gentle support so conversations feel manageable. Kellie draws on several approaches to match each person’s needs. She may use client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts, mindfulness practices to calm the body, motivational interviewing to strengthen goals, or solution-focused steps to move forward quickly.
Her background includes work in medical settings and hospice, which informs how she talks about illness, caregiving, and body image. She has helped people navigate grief after loss and cope with trauma and abuse. She also supports people dealing with stress, compassion fatigue, sleep and eating concerns, and career or parenting strain.
Kellie accepts international clients and offers sessions in English. Her approach is collaborative: she helps people set realistic goals and adjust strategies as they go. She aims to support, empower, and celebrate progress alongside each person.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel heard and understood. Online sessions use these same skills through conversation, helping clients clarify what matters and decide next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches simple tools to change unhelpful patterns; it works well in video sessions where worksheets and exercises can be shared and practiced together. Mindfulness Therapy uses simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and ground attention, which can be integrated into short check-ins or guided exercises during a session.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they choose and adjust techniques so the plan fits the person’s life and needs rather than forcing a single method.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to stay connected. Video calls let people speak face to face and use visual materials. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be a good fit for brief check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging support ongoing check-ins, quick coaching, and follow-up between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep progress moving forward.
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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