About Kerri
Kerri Brown is a licensed mental health counselor in Hawaii who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and life transitions. She speaks plain, practical language and aims to create a respectful relationship where clients feel heard. Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth, geared toward small steps that add up over time.
She holds a master’s degree in Counselor Education from the University of Alaska, Anchorage and has worked in mental health since 2007.
Background and approach
That background includes inpatient teen treatment, group homes for adults, community support for young adults in the justice system, and school-based behavioral health. Those varied settings shaped a flexible, practical way of working with different life challenges. Kerri draws on client-centered methods to follow what each person needs in the moment.
She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people spot automatic thoughts and change unhelpful patterns. Solution-focused strategies are used to identify clear goals and build forward momentum. Sessions often focus on learning simple skills to notice emotions, reduce reactivity, and try new behaviors.
She emphasizes self-compassion so clients can set realistic goals and move toward what matters to them. She frames progress as a series of manageable steps rather than big, sudden changes. Kerri also supports people dealing with addiction, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, grief, career decisions, and questions about life purpose and self-love.
Her style is steady and practical, helping clients find clearer direction and day-to-day coping strategies.
How Kerri’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy is about listening and following the client’s lead. The therapist asks questions, reflects what is shared, and helps people decide what to focus on next; this fits well with online formats where conversation guides the work.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, teaches ways to notice automatic thoughts and test them against reality. It helps with anxiety, depression, ADHD-related thinking patterns, and stress by adding practical exercises and simple behavioral experiments between sessions.
Solution-focused therapy looks for small, concrete steps that move a person toward clear goals. Sessions identify what’s already working, then build on those strengths to create quick, achievable changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to choose or combine methods based on personal goals, day-to-day needs, and comfort with different formats. That collaboration helps shape a plan that feels realistic and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which gives flexibility for different situations. Video is useful for in-depth work and nonverbal cues, phone calls can fit a quick check-in or lower bandwidth needs, and chat or text are good for brief updates, coping tools, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and make steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English
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