About Keona
Keona Serrano uses a client-centered approach to help people feel heard and understood. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in New York with 14 years of experience. Keona focuses on practical steps people can take to manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addictions.
She listens without judgment and builds on each person’s strengths. Sessions aim to boost self-esteem, motivation, and confidence. Keona also works with concerns around relationships, intimacy, grief, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Her background includes helping people facing life changes like divorce, fertility struggles, and blended family issues. She also supports those coping with substance use, body image worries, and eating-related concerns. Attachment and abandonment worries are part of her focus as well.
Keona blends client-centered listening with mindfulness techniques and motivational interviewing. That means sessions often include reflective conversation, noticing present-moment experience, and identifying personal reasons for change. The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
People connect with Keona for short-term goals and longer work on deeper patterns. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time, and she conducts therapy in English from her New York practice.
Approaches you can use online with a therapist
Keona often relies on client-centered therapy, which centers the conversation on the person's own goals. That approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping the person identify what matters most to them. Mindfulness therapy is used to increase present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity; it helps with anxiety, stress, and strong emotions by practicing simple attention and breathing skills. Motivational interviewing is a collaborative way to explore ambivalence and strengthen a person’s own motivation to change, often useful with addictions, habit change, and career or lifestyle shifts.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Keona will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. She adjusts pacing and techniques as progress is made so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for scheduling and consistency. Video calls allow depth similar to in-person sessions, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth or camera time is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to continue work when travel or other demands make in-person visits difficult.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English