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Keli Karbowski, LCSW

Based in Florida Online sessions

Calm, practical support for everyday challenges

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Years in practice
22
Credentials
LCSW
Licensed in
Florida
Languages
English
Focus
Stress, Anxiety
Focus
Trauma and abuse
Focus
Grief
About

About Keli

Keli Karbowski is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida with 22 years of practice. She helps people who are dealing with depression, anxiety, trauma, and parenting challenges. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at helping individuals find practical ways forward.

She focuses on reducing overwhelm and improving day-to-day functioning. Sessions often include talking through difficult memories, sorting intense emotions, and learning concrete skills to manage stress and mood swings.

Background and approach

She also supports people coping with grief, self-esteem struggles, and addiction concerns. Keli uses clear methods that fit each person’s needs. She draws on client-centered work to listen deeply and prioritize the client’s goals.

She pairs that with cognitive behavioral strategies to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Mindfulness and solution-focused techniques are used to build coping tools and identify small, doable steps. Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or uncertain about change.

Together these approaches aim to make progress feel realistic and measurable. Her background includes long-term work with mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, and issues linked to abandonment, adoption, and codependency. She also has experience supporting people with obsessive-compulsive patterns, impulse control concerns, and challenges tied to veteran and armed forces experiences.

Keli offers sessions in English and works with people across many life stages. She conducts video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Getting started begins by selecting Start Therapy, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling according to availability.

Focus areas and approaches

What Keli works with

Everything Keli lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Keli helps people with.

Approaches Keli lists

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Online support

How Keli’s Approaches Translate to Online Care

Client-centered work focuses on hearing the person first and building goals from their priorities. In practice this means sessions begin by asking what matters most and shaping the plan around the client’s values and daily life.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online CBT can help with anxiety, depression, OCD patterns, and mood symptoms by teaching practical techniques for changing thought and behavior patterns.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. These tools are useful for stress, trauma symptoms, and impulse control, and they can be practiced between sessions to strengthen coping.

Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will help figure out which methods fit a person’s needs, goals, and preferences, and will adjust strategies over time based on what works.

Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging gives flexibility for different routines. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or to fit a work break. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, quick problem solving, and ongoing support between appointments.
Questions

Questions people ask about Keli

What issues does Keli often help people with?

She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and parenting concerns. Additional areas include addictions, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and relationship or family stress.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Keli combines a warm, client-centered approach with practical tools. Sessions aim to listen first, then use strategies like CBT or solution-focused steps to create small, achievable changes.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She has 22 years of experience working across mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, and issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, and codependency.

What credentials and location are on record?

She holds the LCSW credential and practices in Florida as FL LCSW.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

Are international clients accepted?

International clients are not currently accepted.

What session formats are available?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.

How do I begin working with her?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.

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