About Keley
Dr. Keley Smith-Keller is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 30 years of experience. She practices in South Dakota and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, life changes, and career decisions.
Her background includes a master's in counseling and a doctorate in adult and higher education. She has worked a long time with adults in higher education, helping them adjust to college, handle relationships and anxiety, and make career choices that feel right.
Background and approach
She also brings experience with grief, trauma and abuse, anger, eating and workplace concerns. Her work often centers on practical strategies for day-to-day challenges. Her style mixes narrative therapy with solution-focused techniques.
She asks questions that help people see the story they are living and identify small steps toward a preferred future. She uses writing and chat to support emotional insight and to track progress between sessions. Dr.
Smith-Keller values simple, concrete goals and collaborative planning. She supports people as they develop coping skills, build self-esteem, and make decisions about work and life purpose. Sessions aim to be straightforward and goal-oriented.
People who prefer reflective work with practical tools often find her approach helpful. She combines listening, guided writing exercises, and short-term goal planning to move toward clearer choices and more manageable stress levels.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, focuses on building concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. Online sessions can include skills coaching, role-playing, and homework to practice new behaviors between meetings.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing exercises to reduce stress and increase awareness of thoughts and feelings. These practices work well over video or phone and can be guided during a live session or reinforced through text check-ins.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, listen to what has helped or not helped before, and recommend techniques that fit the client's needs and preferences. That decision is collaborative and can shift over time as progress is made.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - offer flexibility for different situations. Video lets people see facial cues and use interactive exercises. Phone sessions are often simpler when low bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text support quick check-ins, written reflections, and therapeutic writing exercises between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to use the therapist's methods in ways that match daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Life purpose
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- South Dakota
- Languages
- English
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