About Keith
Keith Nelson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 18 years of experience. He practices in California and focuses on practical ways to reduce stress, anxiety, depression, and problems with addiction and relationships. He uses a somatic perspective alongside talk-based methods to help people notice how their body and emotions interact.
Sessions are aimed at helping people feel steadier and make changes that fit their life. He frames therapy as a collaborative effort where the client’s strengths guide the work.
Background and approach
He pays attention to the whole person - their body, thoughts, daily stresses, and social context. That means looking at patterns built over time and finding small, doable steps forward. He draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral ideas to help people clarify values and change actions.
Keith has long experience with substance use, emotional pain from trauma or abuse, and codependency. He also helps people facing grief, intimacy struggles, sleep and eating concerns, ADHD, bipolar mood issues, and career or parenting strain. His practice addresses both immediate coping and longer-term patterns that keep problems repeating.
In sessions clients can expect a calm, practical approach that mixes body-focused awareness with straightforward talk work. He respects personal choices and works to match interventions to each person’s needs. The goal is clearer understanding, reduced distress, and better day-to-day functioning.
Keith holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, CA LCSW 21893, and offers services in English in California. He integrates clinical approaches based on what helps each person move forward.
How somatic and values-based work translates online
Somatic work in therapy focuses on noticing bodily sensations and how they connect to emotions and behavior. Online sessions can guide gentle body awareness, grounding exercises, and tracking physical cues that relate to stress and trauma. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters most and take small, concrete steps toward those values while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. In an online setting ACT techniques can support everyday choices and manageable behavior changes.Finding the right approach is part of the first sessions. The therapist will work together with the client to decide whether more body-focused practices, values-driven ACT work, or cognitive-behavioral strategies fit best. That decision is based on the client’s goals, comfort with different methods, and what feels most useful in daily life.
Online formats offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Those options make it easier to fit therapy around work and family life and to maintain contact between sessions when needed. The focus remains on practical tools that can be used in everyday situations so progress continues outside the therapy hour.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English