About Kerene
Dr. Kerene Brown is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Georgia. She holds LICSW, LCSW, and CSW credentials and has seven years of clinical experience helping adults navigate stress and anxiety.
Her work centers on practical steps people can use when life feels overwhelming. Dr. Brown focuses on common struggles like depression, relationship and communication problems, grief, and coping with life changes.
She also addresses ADHD, compassion fatigue, and identity concerns among LGBT clients.
Background and approach
Her style is compassionate and culturally aware, with attention to how shame, guilt, and attachment patterns shape daily life. In sessions she listens closely and helps people name what matters to them. Conversations often move from understanding patterns to trying out specific skills.
She uses a mix of approaches to fit the person rather than one fixed method. Clients can expect straightforward tools for managing intense emotions and building routine strategies. Work may include behavioral experiments, values-based goal setting, and practicing new ways of relating to others.
Dr. Brown supports people through transitions like parenting challenges, career shifts, or loss. She blends practical skill building with attention to personal meaning.
That combination aims to reduce symptoms while helping people feel more steady and purposeful in daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values while learning to sit with difficult thoughts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and helps people shift how they connect with others over time.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Dr. Brown will talk with each person about their goals, history, and preferences, and then suggest techniques that fit. That decision is collaborative and can change as needs evolve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video offers a face-to-face feeling for skills practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, and messaging is useful for brief check-ins or when someone needs flexibility. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent during busy weeks, moves, or life transitions.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
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