About Kenita
Kenita Perry-Bell is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of experience as a therapist and life coach. She practices from a warm, interactive stance and focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed or stuck. Kenita has worked with many people facing anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and substance-related concerns.
She is also a breast cancer survivor and welcomes conversations with women and family members affected by breast cancer.
Background and approach
Kenita uses several therapeutic methods and adapts them to each person's needs. She blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral tools and mindfulness practices. Psychodynamic ideas and motivational interviewing also shape how she listens and offers feedback.
Sessions are practical and conversational. Kenita aims to help people build coping skills, manage strong emotions, and make concrete changes in daily life. She pays attention to how past experiences affect present patterns and to strengths that can be used for recovery.
Her background includes years working in health settings and supporting people with substance use challenges. That experience informs work with caregivers, chronic illness, first responders, and those facing medical issues like cancer. Kenita also helps people with relationship strain, parenting stress, career transitions, and attention-related concerns.
Clients can expect a respectful, collaborative approach. Kenita frames goals together with each person and adjusts the plan as progress is made. She encourages small, manageable steps toward better emotional balance and clearer decision making.
Approaches that fit online care
Kenita uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy to guide online sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and building a supportive relationship so people feel heard and understood. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and then practices new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety and stress.She also integrates mindfulness techniques to teach simple grounding and breathing practices that reduce rumination and improve sleep. These approaches are useful for anxiety, stress, grief, and coping with health or caregiving demands. Kenita treats choosing a method as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, try approaches, and adjust plans based on what helps most. That way the work matches personal needs and preferences rather than a one-size-fits-all method.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or shorter support between longer sessions. These formats offer flexibility to fit therapy around work, caregiving, medical appointments, and everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Texas, Indiana, Nevada
- Languages
- English
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