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01About Keley
Dr. Keley Smith-Keller is a Licensed Professional Counselor in South Dakota with 30 years of experience. She holds a master's degree in counseling and a doctorate in adult and higher education.
She focuses on practical steps people can use to manage stress, anxiety, career questions, and life changes. She helps people talk through relationship worries, grief, eating and anger concerns, and trauma and abuse. She also supports those facing workplace strain, questions about life purpose, aging issues, and women's health topics.
Background and approach
Her work often centers on building clearer goals and steady coping skills. Her style blends narrative therapy with solution-focused techniques. That means she helps people tell the story of their life in a way that highlights strengths, then narrows in on small, doable steps toward change.
She uses writing and chat-based exercises when those tools fit a person's needs. Keley brings career counseling experience to sessions and often helps people sort career decisions alongside emotional concerns. She views therapy as a collaborative search for a preferred future instead of a one-size-fits-all prescription.
Sessions are offered in English and she works with clients through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Her approach aims to be straightforward, practical, and paced to each person's priorities.
02Credentials
- LPC (South Dakota)
- License LPC882 · expires November 2026
- NPI
- 1730646191 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Keley lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Anger management
- Depression
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Eating and food-related issues
- Forgiveness
- Life purpose
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Methods Keley names
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04Online support
How her approaches work in online sessions
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills focus on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving how people handle intense feelings; these skills can help with anxiety, anger, and stress. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention practices and present-moment awareness that reduce reactivity and increase calm in daily life.Keley uses narrative and solution-focused ideas alongside these practices to help clients shape a clearer sense of what they want next. She will work together with each person to choose which approach or mix of approaches fits best, based on goals, preferences, and what feels helpful in early sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video suits longer conversations and visual connection, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in, live chat allows written back-and-forth in the moment, and text messaging supports brief updates or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and try different ways of working as needs change.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does she address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, self-esteem, depression, anger, grief, trauma and abuse, eating and food-related issues, career questions, relationship and family concerns, and life changes.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her work combines narrative therapy and solution-focused methods with elements of mindfulness and DBT skills when useful. Sessions focus on telling your story, identifying strengths, and setting small, practical steps forward.
What background does she bring to sessions?
She has a master's degree in counseling, a doctorate in adult and higher education, and three decades of clinical and career counseling experience working with adults in higher education and related settings.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the State of South Dakota and practices from that region.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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