About Gwen
Gwen Keliihoomalu is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Hawaii with four decades of experience. She focuses on practical help for everyday problems like anxiety, stress, relationship troubles, and low self-esteem. Gwen aims to make the first steps easier for people who feel overwhelmed or unsure about therapy.
She uses straightforward conversation to understand what matters most to each person. Sessions are shaped to match the client's goals, whether that's managing mood, improving intimacy, coping with loss, or navigating career changes.
Background and approach
Gwen also addresses trauma, grief, ADHD, and compassion fatigue among other concerns. Her style is gentle and respectful. She listens first, then helps people build small, doable changes that add up over time.
This often includes learning new ways to handle strong emotions, setting boundaries, and practicing clearer communication. Gwen brings long experience working with a wide range of life challenges, including parenting stress, blended family dynamics, caretaking strain, chronic illness, and recovery from domestic violence. She also supports people struggling with body image, eating-related issues, and commitment or abandonment worries.
People meet her for both short-term coaching and longer therapeutic work. Conversations can cover immediate coping skills and deeper patterns that affect relationships and daily life. Her approach adapts as needs change, aiming to help clients feel more steady and capable.
Sessions are offered in English and Gwen welcomes international clients. She supports people who prefer different formats such as video, phone, chat, or text-based messaging.
Approaches and getting care online
Gwen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach helps people learn skills to manage anxiety and stress through step-by-step practice and repeated coaching; it suits those needing better day-to-day coping. Another approach looks at patterns in relationships and attachment, helping clients notice repeated interactions and try new ways of communicating to improve connection and intimacy.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Gwen listens to your goals and preferences, then suggests methods that fit the issues you bring. Together you can adjust the plan over time so the work matches what helps most in real life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets you have a face-to-face conversation; phone works well when bandwidth is limited or a hands-free check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging can suit brief check-ins, ongoing reflections, or days when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the emphasis on consistent, practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English
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