Kilee Mikell, LICSW

Kilee Mikell is a licensed independent clinical social worker who helps adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, and the strain of health challenges. She supports people coping with relationship and family conflicts, addiction concerns, trauma and abuse, and the exhaustion that comes from caregiving or helping professions. Her first aim is to make clients feel heard and understood without judgment.

Kilee uses clear, practical steps in sessions. She focuses on what is happening now and what small changes could help. Conversations are grounded in the client’s pace and goals. She draws from client-centered work to keep the person’s priorities front and center.

Her approach also includes cognitive behavioral ideas that help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used when strong emotions feel overwhelming and people need steady ways to cope. Mindfulness practices are offered to build calm and grounding, and motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change.

With eight years of experience, Kilee aims to partner with clients who are ready to take active steps toward improvement. She pays special attention to chronic pain, illness, or disability when these issues affect daily life. Sessions tend to be straightforward, focused, and practical so clients can try tools between meetings.

Readers interested in working together are invited to use the site’s Start Therapy process to match and schedule a first appointment.

How therapy approaches translate to online work

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client’s lead. Online sessions using this approach prioritize the client’s goals and pace, with the therapist reflecting what matters most to the person. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and introduces experiments to try between sessions; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, teaches concrete emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills that can be practiced between meetings and reviewed in session.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to choose methods that fit their goals, day-to-day life, and comfort level. That choice can change over time as progress is made or new needs appear.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow brief check-ins when a full in-person appointment is hard to arrange. It can also let clients try skills at home and bring observations back to the next meeting for discussion.