About Gwen
Gwen Kittell is a licensed clinical social worker in Arizona who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and addiction. She brings 11 years of experience and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Gwen centers her work on respect and on learning what each person needs.
Gwen helps people manage strong emotions and develop healthier coping skills. She supports those dealing with self-esteem issues, shame, guilt, or questions about life purpose.
How Gwen works
She also works with concerns like sleeping problems, anger, and compassion fatigue. Her practice pays attention to how past experiences affect present life. Gwen uses approaches that encourage people to tell their stories, notice patterns, and try new ways of thinking and behaving.
She helps people build self-love and steady routines that reduce overwhelm. Sessions are collaborative and tailored to each person. Gwen listens closely, helps set clear goals, and suggests practical exercises between sessions.
She draws on methods that include client-centered work, cognitive techniques, mindfulness, narrative approaches, and EMDR when appropriate. Gwen also supports people navigating relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting stress, career concerns, and recovery from drug or alcohol addiction. She works with LGBT concerns and offers assistance for attachment issues, body image, codependency, and impulsivity.
People looking to begin meet Gwen through an online process where they answer a short matching questionnaire and schedule times that fit. She practices as an Arizona LCSW and conducts sessions in English.
Gwen lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
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.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arizona |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. It gives people space to lead the conversation while the therapist reflects and helps clarify what matters most, which can be useful for issues like self-esteem and life purpose.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors connect. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, known as EMDR, is a method used to process traumatic memories and reduce their emotional charge. It can be helpful for post-traumatic stress and intense reactions tied to past events.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and past experiences to decide which methods to try. That choice is revisited as progress is made and needs change.
Online therapy with Gwen uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a short break and need less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when writing helps someone process thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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