About Keena
Keena Grimes helps adults who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationships, or past trauma. She is an LPCC (Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor) with 14 years of experience guiding people toward greater emotional balance. Her approach is straightforward and practical, focused on small steps that make daily life feel more manageable.
Sessions begin by identifying what matters most to the individual and what strengths they already have. Keena uses a trauma-informed, strength-based stance to honor personal history while building new coping skills.
Background and approach
Conversations are paced to match each person’s readiness to change. Therapy often includes practical tools to reduce symptoms of depression, panic, and anxiety. She also addresses relationship strain, communication problems, and issues like guilt, shame, or feelings of abandonment.
Keena works with people on life transitions such as divorce, blended family concerns, and parenting-related stressors like postpartum depression. She emphasizes learning skills that can be used between sessions - breathing or grounding techniques, clearer communication strategies, and ways to shift unhelpful thinking.
Over time the focus can broaden to goals such as finding life purpose, building self-love, or repairing trust after infidelity. Keena practices from Ohio and holds experience across many common concerns. Her style is respectful and direct, aimed at helping each person take realistic steps toward feeling better.
Approaches that guide online work and what to expect
Keena draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach she uses emphasizes trauma-informed care - this means recognizing how past hurt affects current feelings and teaching grounding and coping tools to reduce overwhelm. It helps with symptoms like panic, flashbacks, or feeling emotionally flooded.Another emphasis is on strength-based work, which identifies existing skills and builds on them. This approach is useful for improving self-esteem, repairing communication, and setting realistic goals. It helps people notice small wins and apply those wins to everyday challenges.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust them over time based on what works for the client.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to stay connected. Video calls let people converse face to face, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into busy schedules and to choose the format that feels most comfortable for each person.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English