About Keith
Keith Chilton is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California with 30 years of clinical experience. He focuses on anxiety, stress, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, depression, and parenting challenges. Keith offers a calm, steady presence and aims to help people feel seen and understood as they work through difficult moments.
He combines practical tools with a thoughtful, person-centered stance. Sessions often include clear exercises for coping with overwhelming feelings, attention to relationship patterns, and steps to rebuild trust and communication.
Background and approach
He uses methods that help people notice what matters most and take small, meaningful steps forward. Keith draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive-behavioral techniques, attachment-based ideas, emotionally-focused work, and a client-centered approach. That mix lets him tailor sessions to each person’s needs, whether addressing trauma, addiction, or major life change.
He emphasizes collaboration and listening first, then offers interventions suited to the problem at hand. He has worked across many settings and brings long experience supporting people through loss, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and family transitions. Keith also addresses issues such as codependency, communication problems, blended family concerns, and commitment struggles.
Sessions are offered in English and he accepts international clients. People can connect with him by starting the matching process and scheduling a session once the brief questionnaire is completed.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Keith uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck and to identify small values-driven steps they can take. This approach often helps with anxiety, stress, and coping through life changes.He also uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationship patterns affect current connections. That work can help people improve trust, resolve long-standing hurt, and change interaction patterns in close relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Keith treats therapy as a collaborative process and will help weigh different methods based on a person’s goals and preferences. He listens first, then suggests approaches or mixes of approaches aimed at what matters most to the client.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can work for brief check-ins or when writing helps someone process thoughts. These options make scheduling more flexible and allow therapy to fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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