About Kelli
Kelli Means is a licensed professional counselor who brings a direct, practical style to therapy. She holds LPC and LIMHP credentials and draws on nine years of clinical experience. Her manner is conversational and straightforward, and she aims to help people build skills they can use outside of sessions.
Kelli focuses on addiction, trauma and abuse, mood disorders like bipolar and depression, anxiety and stress, and concerns around self-esteem and relationships.
Background and approach
She also works with grief, anger, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and LGBT-related issues. Her additional focus areas include communication problems, codependency, domestic violence, and fertility-related stress among others. In sessions she uses client-centered methods and integrates mindfulness, motivational interviewing, solution-focused techniques, and somatic approaches.
That mix is used to match what each person needs - sometimes short-term goal work, sometimes deeper trauma processing, and sometimes practical steps to reduce cravings or manage mood swings. Kelli has experience in inpatient psychiatric settings, outpatient care, school-based services, and residential addiction treatment.
Much of her work has been with adults and with people who have limited resources or rely on sliding fee options. Her style is warm but direct; she values building trust and being honest about what will help. She aims to teach coping tools, strengthen assertiveness, and support people while they make real-life changes.
Therapeutic approaches for online healing
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and following the person's goals. It is useful when someone needs a supportive space to talk through feelings and decide what matters to them. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple awareness skills to calm the body and mind and can help with anxiety, stress, and emotional regulation. Motivational Interviewing uses guided conversation to help people find motivation to change, which is often helpful for addictions and ambivalence about treatment.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try methods that fit the person, and adjust over time based on what helps most. That way each person gets an approach that matches their needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper work, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day, chat is useful for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities and to keep consistent progress.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska, South Dakota, Louisiana
- Languages
- English