About Kery
Kery Silva is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who practices in California and holds a Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner credential in Nebraska. She has five years of clinical experience and focuses on issues like anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, addictions, and LGBT-related matters. Kery also supports people dealing with career stress, major life changes, and compassion fatigue.
Kery aims to make sessions straightforward and approachable. She creates space for people to talk about what matters most without fear of judgment.
Background and approach
Conversations are practical and grounded, with clear steps to try between meetings. Her background includes work with mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, and substance use concerns. She also has experience addressing workplace pressures, caregiver stress, and financial worries.
Kery pays attention to how conditions like autism or avoidant personality traits can affect daily life. In therapy Kery uses methods that focus on the person’s choices and strengths. She draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to spot unhelpful thinking patterns.
She also uses solution-focused and motivational techniques to set short-term goals and build momentum. Clients can expect a collaborative approach that blends listening with practical guidance. Sessions typically include goal setting, skills practice, and review of progress.
Kery’s style is direct, compassionate, and aimed at helping people make sustainable changes.
Practical approaches for online support
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person’s perspective and building a trusting relationship. It helps when someone needs an accepting space to sort out values, identity, or life choices.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and mood concerns by teaching ways to notice and change unhelpful thought patterns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches skills for regulating intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. It can be helpful for mood instability, stress, and managing self-harm urges.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, and together they will select methods that match the person’s needs. This is a collaborative process that may change as progress is made.
Online sessions can be delivered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit a short break at work. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when writing feels easier than speaking.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
Also works with
- Addictions
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Immigration issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California, Nebraska
- Languages
- English