About Kelly
Kelly Morana-Piazza is a licensed professional counselor who offers calm, practical support for people facing stress and anxiety. She writes in a straightforward way and focuses on small, achievable steps to reduce overwhelm. Kelly speaks plainly and listens closely so people can make changes that matter.
She earned two master’s degrees from St. John’s University, including a Master of Science in Education in clinical mental health counseling. Before shifting careers she worked as a paralegal, and she says that life experience shaped her decision to become a counselor.
Background and approach
Kelly has practiced for 11 years and is licensed as an LPC and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida. In sessions she focuses on everyday problems like coping with addictions, managing anger, and building self-esteem. She helps people work through grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, and major life changes.
Kelly also supports people dealing with depression, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and a range of trauma-related issues. Her style blends client-centered listening with practical tools. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and on mindfulness to help people calm their minds.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused tools are used to set clear, short-term goals. Kelly aims to help people notice strengths they already have and use those strengths to move forward. She encourages steady progress rather than quick fixes and works at a pace people can manage.
Her approach is direct, compassionate, and focused on real-life results.
Approaches and what online sessions look like
Client-centered therapy places the person’s goals first and focuses on listening and understanding. It helps when someone needs to be heard and wants to build on their own strengths to solve problems. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood; it is useful for stress, anxiety, and many everyday challenges.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kelly will talk with each person about goals and preferences and together they will decide which methods to try first. That collaborative process means techniques can be adjusted as needs change and short-term goals can be set and reviewed.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, giving options for different schedules and comfort levels. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and text-based messaging supports ongoing, flexible communication. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the chosen therapeutic approaches.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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