About Kenita
Kenita Perry-Bell is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of experience as a therapist and life coach. She brings a calm, compassionate presence to sessions and focuses on helping people manage everyday struggles. Her background includes work in health settings and support for people facing substance use challenges.
Clients come to her for help with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, and self-esteem concerns. She also supports people dealing with relationship and family stress, parenting strain, career changes, and ADHD.
Background and approach
Kenita has personal experience as a breast cancer survivor and welcomes conversations with women and family members affected by cancer. Her style is warm and interactive. Sessions are tailored to what each person needs rather than following one strict method.
She combines practical strategies with reflective conversation so people can try new ways of coping and then adjust what is or isn’t working. Kenita uses a mix of approaches including client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and psychodynamic ideas. That blend allows her to address thoughts and behaviors as well as deeper patterns that affect relationships and mood.
People who want straightforward, respectful support tend to fit well with her manner. She emphasizes small, achievable steps and works with clients to build skills for managing feelings, improving communication, and handling life changes. Kenita practices in Illinois as an LCSW and offers sessions in English.
She also accepts international clients and provides several online session formats to accommodate different needs.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-centered work focuses on the person in the room and aims to create a respectful, empathetic way of talking through problems. It helps people feel heard and supports them in deciding what changes they want to make.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches practical techniques to shift unhelpful habits. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that help reduce reactivity and improve emotional awareness. It pairs well with strategies aimed at managing mood and attention challenges.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. That plan can change as progress is made and needs evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people maintain face-to-face conversation, phone can be helpful when less bandwidth is needed, live chat and messaging support brief check-ins and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options let clients fit therapy into busy schedules and pick the format that feels most practical for them.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- 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
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