About Kerry
Kerry Dzikiewicz is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship or career challenges. She is comfortable addressing trauma, addiction, grief, sleep problems, ADHD, and self-esteem concerns. Kerry aims to make the first step feel doable and supportive for people seeking change.
She creates an open space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. Sessions focus on practical ways to cope with life changes and improve daily functioning.
Background and approach
Kerry uses a mix of approaches that attend to both body and mind to help people notice and shift unhelpful patterns. Her work includes somatic methods that bring attention to bodily experience alongside cognitive tools that help reframe thinking. She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and build actions that matter.
Motivational interviewing and client-centered techniques guide conversations so clients feel heard and empowered to choose their direction. Kerry has five years of clinical experience and holds the Rhode Island Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential, listed as RI LMHC MHC01286. She provides services from Rhode Island and conducts sessions in English.
Sessions are offered in multiple remote formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits the client’s needs.
How somatic and talk approaches work online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to bodily sensations, posture, breath, and movement to notice how stress and emotion live in the body. Online sessions can include guided breathing, gentle tracking of sensations, and grounding practices that reduce overwhelm and increase awareness.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck and choose actions that match their values. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions because it centers what matters and builds steady steps toward it.
Finding the right blend of methods is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide whether more somatic work, ACT strategies, cognitive tools, or a mix will best meet their needs. The plan can change over time as goals shift.
Online formats offer flexible options to fit busy lives. Video calls let the therapist observe posture and facial cues, phone sessions remove screen demands, and live chat or text-based messaging allow brief check-ins or journaling support between sessions. These choices make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Rhode Island
- Languages
- English