About Keeyana
Keeyana McLish is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Alabama with six years of clinical experience. She guides people through stress, anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem with straightforward, steady support. Keeyana values the courage it takes to reach out and begins by listening to each person's story and strengths.
She works from the view that clients know their lives best. Sessions focus on practical steps people can use right away.
Background and approach
Keeyana blends client-centered methods with cognitive behavioral ideas to help clients notice unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. In sessions she uses plain language and clear goals. Conversations are paced to match what the client needs, whether that means focused skills practice or space to process feelings.
Topics she commonly addresses include relationship strain, communication problems, commitment worries, and coping with life changes. Keeyana also helps people working through attachment and abandonment concerns, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, and issues like guilt, shame, or isolation. She pays attention to how thinking patterns and daily routines influence mood and relationships.
Her approach aims to be collaborative and practical. Clients can expect a mix of listening, reflection, and concrete strategies they can try between sessions. The work is steady and goal-oriented, guided by the client's priorities.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Keeyana draws on client-centered therapy, which centers sessions on the client's experience and priorities. That means meeting people where they are, listening carefully, and shaping each session around what the client wants to address. This approach helps when someone needs space to process feelings or decide goals for change.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying specific, testable behavior changes. CBT methods are useful for anxiety, depression, relationship patterns, and managing stress because they break larger problems into small, practical steps to practice between sessions.
Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. Keeyana works with clients to choose techniques that fit their needs, goals, and day-to-day lives. She adjusts the approach as progress is made or new concerns come up.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls suit in-depth conversations, phone sessions are good when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to get consistent care that fits work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English