About Kenita
Kenita Perry-Bell is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 15 years of experience as a therapist and life coach. She brings a calm, direct style to sessions and focuses on helping people handle common life stresses. Many clients come for help with anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, or relationship and family concerns.
She has worked in health-related settings and has experience supporting people affected by substance use. As a breast cancer survivor, she understands the emotional impact of serious illness and welcomes conversations with women and family members who have faced cancer.
Background and approach
Kenita combines practical techniques with reflective conversation. She draws on cognitive-behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thinking and on mindfulness to build present-moment awareness. She also uses psychodynamic perspectives to look at patterns that repeat over time.
Her sessions are client-centered and collaborative. She will adapt plans to fit a person’s goals, pace, and life demands. Expect straightforward guidance, opportunity to practice new skills, and space to talk through hard emotions.
Kenita addresses a wide range of concerns including stress, anger, self-esteem, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, career changes, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and coping with life transitions. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment questions, blended family dynamics, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and forgiveness work. Kenita is based in Illinois and works with people through multiple online formats.
Her approach suits someone looking for a warm, practical therapist who offers structure and empathy while helping clients set realistic steps forward.
How Kenita’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and tailoring sessions to what matters most to the client. It creates a respectful space where the therapist follows the client’s goals and pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and offers straightforward tools to change unhelpful patterns and reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that help reduce reactivity and improve focus during stressful moments.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kenita will discuss your goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. Sessions often blend approaches so you can learn practical skills while exploring longer-term patterns, and adjustments are made as progress is reviewed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which give flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a person prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone needs short, written reflections between sessions. Together these options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Texas, Indiana, Nevada
- Languages
- English