About Kelly
Kelly Morana-Piazza welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, life changes, or struggles with addiction. She frames the work around each person's goals and strengths. Kelly is a licensed professional counselor - LPC - and a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with eleven years of experience.
She listens first and helps people put words to what matters most. Sessions focus on practical steps such as coping tools for anxiety, ways to manage anger, and strategies to rebuild self-esteem.
Background and approach
Kelly uses everyday language and aims to make each meeting straightforward and useful. Her background includes two master’s degrees and prior work as a paralegal, which shaped her clear, organized style. That mix of life experience and training influences how she helps people sort tangled problems and make progress at a steady pace.
Kelly draws on client-centered methods to follow the person’s lead and on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns. Mindfulness strategies are used to practice staying present when strong emotions arise. People come for help with depression, relationship and family stress, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, career concerns, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and related issues.
Kelly also addresses topics like body image, codependency, and substance use with practical, stepwise plans. She offers a calm, direct approach that aims to make coping skills readable and repeatable. New clients are guided through a clear first step so they can begin working toward their goals without extra confusion.
How Kelly’s approaches translate to online therapy
Kelly often uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in sessions. Client-centered therapy means the conversation follows the person's priorities and builds on their strengths to solve present problems. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify patterns of thinking that keep stress and anxiety going and teaches concrete skills to change those patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kelly collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. Over time she adjusts techniques based on what is helping and what feels comfortable for the individual.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for deeper, face-to-face conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or the person prefers not to use video. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter check-ins, quick coping reminders, or when someone needs flexible timing around a busy schedule.
These options make it possible to fit regular work on goals into a life with school, jobs, caregiving, or travel while keeping the focus on practical steps and steady progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida, South Carolina
- Languages
- English