About Kerri
Kerri Brown is a licensed mental health counselor in Hawaii who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions. She works with clients on challenges like ADHD, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career questions, and finding life purpose. Her approach is calm and practical, aimed at helping people take small, steady steps toward change.
She builds therapy around a trusting relationship where people feel respected and heard.
Background and approach
Kerri uses client-centered methods to listen closely and tailor sessions to each person’s goals. She also draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help clients notice and reframe automatic thoughts that fuel difficult feelings. Mindfulness and solution-focused work are woven into sessions to make changes feel realistic and manageable.
She helps people identify behaviors that serve them and those they want to change, then sets clear, achievable goals. The focus is on practical skills and self-compassion rather than quick fixes. Kerri’s counseling career began in 2007, and she has twelve years of professional experience across settings.
Her background includes inpatient teen treatment, group homes for adults, community programs for young adults in the justice system, and school-based behavioral health. That variety informs how she meets people where they are. She holds a master’s degree in Counselor Education from the University of Alaska, Anchorage and practices as an LMHC.
In sessions she emphasizes small, steady steps and building momentum toward goals. Kerri aims to help people clarify values, grow self-love, and move forward with purpose.
Approaches that guide online counseling
Client-Centered Therapy means the therapist listens without judgment and follows the client’s lead to build trust and clarity. This approach helps when someone wants a supportive space to talk things through and figure out next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It teaches practical tools to notice automatic thoughts and change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress.
Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes small, achievable changes and clear goals. Sessions often identify strengths and past successes to build momentum toward specific outcomes.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with clients to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, and they offer flexibility for different situations. Video calls are helpful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging lets people write through thoughts over time. These formats make it easier to fit counseling into busy lives and reach licensed professionals from wherever the client is located.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English