About Kiana
Kiana Thomas is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in South Carolina. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress or anxiety and those facing depression, relationship struggles, or life changes. Her style is straightforward and warm so clients can talk about what matters most.
Kiana uses practical tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people notice and change thought patterns, and Solution-Focused Therapy, which targets small, doable steps toward goals.
Background and approach
She also draws on Client-Centered and Mindfulness approaches to help clients feel heard and build awareness. Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-oriented. Kiana holds a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from South University and a bachelor’s degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina.
She has five years of experience working in both independent practice and public agencies, which gives her familiarity with different kinds of concerns and treatment settings. In a typical session she listens first, then works with the person to pick a few practical strategies to try between meetings.
That might include brief behavioral experiments, thought records, or small habit changes that match a client’s daily life. Progress is checked regularly and plans are adjusted when needed. People come to Kiana for help with a wide range of issues, including trauma and abuse, addictions, sleep or eating struggles, self-esteem, parenting stress, ADHD, and career concerns.
She aims to keep the work clear, manageable, and rooted in each person’s real-world needs.
How Kiana brings practical approaches to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and responding to each person's priorities so the therapist follows the client's lead and reflects what matters most. This approach helps people feel understood and builds a working relationship that supports change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral experiments or thought records. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep or eating struggles, and coping with mood shifts.
Solution-Focused Therapy narrows attention to what will help now by setting small, achievable goals and tracking progress. It works well when someone wants practical steps they can try between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try techniques that match those goals, and adjust plans based on what helps. That means sessions can shift over time as needs change.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make scheduling more flexible and let people pick what fits their routine. Video helps with face-to-face conversation, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text supports brief check-ins or ongoing notes, and all formats allow therapy to fit around school, work, or caregiving obligations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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