About Keith
Keith Chilton uses a blend of practical therapy approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and trauma. He is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with three decades of experience and a straightforward, caring style. Keith aims to create a steady space where people can talk through painful moments and find concrete ways to cope.
He favors methods that focus on values, present-moment choices, and how relationships shape feeling and behavior.
How Keith works
Sessions often include gentle listening, guided questions, and exercises to practice between meetings. This mix helps people address depression, addiction-related patterns, grief, and challenges with intimacy or parenting. Keith has worked in California for many years and brings long experience supporting people through life transitions and chronic stress.
He also focuses on issues tied to attachment, adoption and foster care, blended family dynamics, and caregiver strain. His background includes responding to complex situations such as domestic violence and chronic illness concerns. In session the emphasis is on collaboration.
He helps clients define short-term goals and small steps they can try right away. Tools can range from thought-focused techniques to emotion-centered exercises that improve communication and closeness. Keith offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules.
He accepts international clients and conducts therapy in English. To begin, a prospective client completes a brief matching questionnaire and schedules based on availability.
Keith lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Keith works with
The areas below are the ones Keith selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Integrating attachment and values work in online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on values and small, meaningful actions. It helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose behaviors that fit what matters to them, which can ease anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections. It helps people recognize attachment needs and practice new ways of relating when intimacy, trust, or communication are difficult.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review goals, preferences, and the issues you bring and suggest methods that fit. Sessions may mix ACT, attachment work, and client-centered conversation to match what feels most useful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works well for focused check-ins, and text messaging supports brief reflections between appointments. These options allow people to fit therapy into busy days and to try different formats as needs change.
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