About Gwen
Gwen Keliihoomalu is a licensed mental health counselor with four decades of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, relationship strain, or life transitions. Gwen aims to meet clients where they are and talks in straightforward, respectful language.
She works with common concerns like trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, grief, and career challenges. Gwen also supports people dealing with sleep or eating issues, anger, and mood concerns such as depression and bipolar conditions.
Background and approach
She listens first, then tailors conversations and goals to each person’s needs. Gwen practices from Hawaii and draws on long experience to guide practical steps forward. She pays attention to how life events, caregiving demands, and medical conditions can affect daily coping.
Her approach emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes. Sessions focus on clear problem-solving, skills for stress and anxiety, and building confidence in everyday choices. Gwen encourages people to try small changes and notice what helps.
She aims for an honest, compassionate partnership in therapy. Starting therapy with her includes a brief matching process and scheduling that fits the client. She accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English.
The goal is to create a simple, realistic plan that fits each person’s life and goals.
How Gwen’s Approaches Work Online
Gwen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and real-life changes. One approach emphasizes teaching coping skills for anxiety and stress so people can manage symptoms day to day and feel more in control. Another approach centers on processing trauma and painful experiences at a pace the client chooses, helping reduce distress and improve daily functioning.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Gwen will talk with each person about their goals, needs, and preferences and adapt methods accordingly. The process is collaborative: she listens, suggests options, and checks in about what is working so plans can be adjusted over time.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and situations. Video lets people use facial cues and visual connection, while phone calls can be a good option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping consistent progress toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English
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