About Kelly
Kelly Morana-Piazza is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people who feel stuck by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, or life changes. She uses a practical, down-to-earth style and aims to make first steps feel manageable for worried parents reading on a phone. Kelly holds LPC and LMHC credentials and offers supportive, goal-focused sessions from Florida.
She spent years working as a paralegal before training in clinical mental health counseling, and that background shapes how she organizes sessions.
Background and approach
Kelly uses clear tools to address anxiety, anger, addictions, motivation, and confidence. Sessions are conversational and focused on small, actionable changes clients can try between meetings. Kelly blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques.
She helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try different behaviors to test what works. Mindfulness practices are offered when they fit, to reduce reactivity and build calm, steady attention. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods guide short-term goals and practical steps for change.
These approaches are used to boost motivation, navigate transitions, and handle relationship or family stress. The therapist emphasizes collaboration and respects each person’s pace. With eleven years of clinical experience, Kelly draws on both life experience and formal study to guide sessions.
She works by asking simple questions, offering feedback, and suggesting exercises that fit daily life. Parents and adults can expect straightforward guidance aimed at improving coping and everyday functioning.
Approaches and Online Therapy That Fit Real Life
Kelly blends client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice what they want to change and take small steps toward it. Client-centered work means she listens closely and follows each person’s lead, while CBT looks at thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety, manage mood, or address addiction patterns.She also uses mindfulness techniques to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and help with stress or overwhelm. Together these methods are chosen with the client in a collaborative way; Kelly will discuss options and tailor the mix based on a person’s goals and daily routine.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is useful for a more traditional conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging support shorter check-ins, written reflection, and between-session communication while fitting into a busy schedule.
Overall, the goal is to use online formats to make it easier to try practical skills, track progress, and keep momentum between sessions with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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