About Kelli
Kelli Whiteaker is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 18 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She supports those coping with relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, and major life changes. Kelli focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and more in control.
In sessions she aims for a warm, nonjudgmental space where clients can speak freely. She listens closely and helps people identify patterns that make worry or tension worse.
Background and approach
Together they set small, realistic goals and try strategies that can be practiced between meetings. Kelli draws on a mix of research-informed approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques and emotionally-focused work to address how thoughts and feelings shape daily life. Narrative and solution-focused ideas help clients reframe difficult stories and find concrete next steps.
She adapts the work to each person’s needs and pace. Her background includes clinical work in Washington and Oregon over nearly two decades. That experience has shaped a steady, practical style that balances attention to emotion with clear problem-solving.
Kelli encourages people to notice small changes and to build on what already helps them. She notes limited morning and afternoon availability Monday through Friday and does not offer late afternoon or evening sessions. Sessions are offered in English and arranged to fit each client’s schedule and goals.
Approaches to emotions and behavior online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on meeting people where they are and following what matters most to them; it emphasizes listening, validation, and building trust to make changes feel possible. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep anxiety and low mood going and teaches practical techniques to shift those patterns, which can help with panic, social anxiety, and mood concerns.Kelli treats approach selection as a collaborative process. She will work with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean trying CBT strategies for worry, using emotionally-focused work to improve how someone manages close relationships, or blending ideas to match the situation.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let people work visually through emotional material, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing brief contact between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep consistent progress with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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