About Keona
Keona Serrano uses client-centered and mindfulness-based methods to help people untangle stress, anxiety, addiction-related problems, and self-esteem concerns. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, based in New York with 14 years of professional experience. Keona writes plainly in session and focuses on practical steps people can try between meetings.
She listens for each person's strengths and priorities, then helps shape goals that feel realistic. Sessions often include mindful breathing and attention exercises to reduce overwhelm.
How Keona works
Motivational interviewing techniques are used to explore readiness for change and boost a person's own reasons for taking action. Keona helps with a wide range of concerns including depression, grief, anger, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people facing relationship and intimacy-related issues, family and family-of-origin concerns, body image and eating issues, and the stress that comes with major life changes.
She has experience addressing addiction and substance use challenges alongside issues such as codependency, commitment and control problems, and attachment or abandonment worries. Keona also works with fertility-related stress and the fallout from separation or divorce. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with clear steps to practice outside sessions.
Keona aims to meet people where they are and build on what already works in their lives. Simple tools, steady support, and collaborative planning are central to her approach.
Keona lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Keona works with
The areas below are the ones Keona selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How client-centered approaches translate to online care
Keona uses client-centered therapy and mindfulness techniques to help people manage stress and move toward goals. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and shaping sessions around each person's priorities, which can help when sorting out anxiety, relationship concerns, or career stress. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and improve coping with intense emotions. Motivational interviewing is used to explore ambivalence and encourage commitment to change. It helps people clarify their own reasons for making shifts in behavior, including around substance use or unhealthy relationship patterns. Keona works collaboratively to find the mix of approaches that fits a person's goals and comfort level. Online formats offer practical flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins during a hectic day, and text-based messaging lets people share thoughts between scheduled meetings. These options make it easier to keep momentum while balancing work, caregiving, or travel.Start online instead of waiting
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