About Gwen
Gwen Keliihoomalu offers straightforward, respectful support for people facing relationship strain, trauma, anxiety, and life transitions. She greets each person with sensitivity and compassion and adapts sessions to the concerns brought into the room. Gwen uses a practical style and clear conversation to help clients find next steps.
Gwen is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, with four decades of professional experience in Hawaii. Over that time she has worked with many common struggles such as low self-esteem, career setbacks, grief, and mood concerns including depression and bipolar patterns.
How Gwen works
She also addresses eating and sleeping difficulties, anger, and compassion fatigue. Her approach is collaborative and tailored. Gwen listens first, then helps people set small, achievable goals.
Conversations focus on what is happening now and on skills or changes that can be put into practice between sessions. Many people come for help after traumatic events, painful relationship moments, or big life changes. Gwen includes attention to attachment and abandonment themes when those issues appear.
She also supports people managing caregiving stress, chronic illness, or recovery from domestic violence. Sessions can include coaching-style guidance when useful, alongside therapeutic work on emotions and behavior. Gwen encourages steady progress and points out practical ways to cope with stress, anxiety, and the daily challenges that interfere with functioning.
What Gwen works with
The areas below are the ones Gwen selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 40 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Hawaii |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Gwen draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional healing. One approach centers on skill building for stress, anxiety, and mood management; it teaches concrete coping tools and step-by-step practices to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Another approach emphasizes processing trauma and attachment wounds by creating a steady, paced dialogue that helps people make sense of painful experiences and reduce their impact on current relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Gwen collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they check how strategies are working and adjust the plan over time so the therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep steady contact when progress matters.
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