About Kelli
Kelli Brunk is a licensed clinical social worker with 28 years in independent practice. She provides services in English and Spanish and draws on long experience helping people through hard times. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and sleep problems.
She also helps with relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, self-esteem, career transitions, and coping with life changes such as divorce or loss. Bipolar disorder and ADHD are also listed among her areas of practice.
How Kelli works
Kelli uses straightforward, goal-oriented techniques in sessions. She leans on approaches that help people change unhelpful thoughts and build practical coping skills. Sessions often include steps clients can try between meetings to test what works for them.
Her background includes many years supporting people facing chronic illness, caregiver strain, and aging or geriatric challenges. She also has experience with abandonment issues, avoidant and dependent personality concerns, communication and commitment problems, and responses to domestic violence or other traumatic events. Kelli aims to make the first steps into therapy easier.
She creates a nonjudgmental space where people can speak honestly about their feelings. The work is collaborative and paced to a person’s needs and goals.
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What Kelli works with
The areas below are the ones Kelli selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 28 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Practical approaches for online therapy and change
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new ways of thinking and behaving. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping with stress by breaking problems into manageable steps.Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes clear goals and small, practical changes. It helps people notice what is already working and build on those strengths to reach specific life goals or resolve current problems.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped before. From there they pick or combine techniques to match the person's needs in a collaborative way.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls let people meet face to face when bandwidth and time allow. Phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when video would be difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between calls or use written conversation when that style fits better.
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A practical next step
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