About Kelli
Kelli Means is a licensed professional counselor who uses a warm, straightforward style to help people move forward. She is an LPC and a licensed independent mental health practitioner, and she brings nine years of clinical experience to her work. Kelli aims to make therapy practical and clear for people facing complex stressors such as ADHD, anxiety, depression, and addictions.
Kelli meets people where they are and keeps sessions conversational.
Background and approach
She focuses on understanding the person first, not just the diagnosis. Her style is direct when needed, and she adapts methods to match each person's goals and pace. She has worked in inpatient psychiatric settings, outpatient clinics, school-based programs, and residential addiction treatment.
Much of her recent work has been with adults in community mental health and nonprofit settings that serve people with limited resources. Kelli uses several approaches in session, including client-centered work, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, solution-focused techniques, and somatic strategies. She blends these to help with emotion regulation, motivation for change, and building daily coping skills.
People come to Kelli for help with trauma and abuse, mood and bipolar concerns, grief and loss, relationship issues, stress and burnout, and substance use. She also supports those navigating gender and sexual identity questions and compassion fatigue from helping roles. Kelli aims to teach practical skills so clients can handle setbacks on their own.
She describes her role as a guide who helps clarify choices and practice new behaviors until those changes feel natural.
Practical approaches you can use in online sessions
Client-centered work focuses on listening and building understanding so clients feel seen and heard. It helps people clarify their own goals and make choices that fit their values. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple, present-moment skills to notice thoughts and feelings without getting swept away, which can ease anxiety and improve focus. Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about change by exploring ambivalence and strengthening personal reasons to move forward.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and past experiences to decide together which methods to try. That collaborative planning means sessions are tailored and can shift as needs change.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for in-depth conversations and hands-on coaching. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text can support quick check-ins, brief coaching, or between-session contact to practice skills. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska, South Dakota, Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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