About Kerene
Dr. Kerene Brown is a licensed clinical social worker who practices in Georgia and Washington, DC. She holds LICSW, LCSW, and CSW credentials and brings seven years of experience to her therapeutic work.
She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She often supports those wrestling with identity questions, relationship strain, grief, and parenting stress. In sessions she aims to create a calm space for clear thinking.
How Kerene works
She listens for what matters most to each person and helps them name patterns that get in the way. Therapy is collaborative and paced to match the client’s comfort and goals. Her background includes work with mood disorders, attachment difficulties, and compassion fatigue.
She uses a mix of practical strategies and reflective conversation to address problems like anger, low self-esteem, ADHD challenges, and major life changes. This combination helps people build coping skills and steady routines. Dr.
Brown uses approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Attachment-Based Therapy to guide sessions. She also draws on client-centered and dialectical ideas when helpful. These methods are adapted to the person’s needs rather than applied in a fixed way.
People who choose her often want straightforward tools and honest talk about feelings and behavior. Sessions may focus on setting boundaries, improving communication, reducing avoidance, or managing strong emotions. The work moves at a practical pace so clients can use what they learn between appointments.
Kerene lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Kerene works with
The areas below are the ones Kerene selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LICSW, LCSW, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, encourages people to notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying values and taking small, meaningful steps toward a life that matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches concrete skills for changing them, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current ways of relating and helps people build safer, more predictable patterns in how they connect with others.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dr. Brown will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan based on how clients respond over time.
Online formats can make it easier to fit therapy into daily life. Video calls allow real-time conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can support brief check-ins or between-session coaching. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, help when travel is difficult, and multiple ways to practice new skills between appointments.
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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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