Kelli Trueblood-Graves, LCSW

Licensed in New Mexico · 10 years in practice

Kelli Trueblood-Graves is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing addiction, trauma, relationship strain, and parenting challenges.

License and registration

LCSW, New Mexico: SWB-2023-0240 · expires July 2026
NPI: 1629783642 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 10
Languages: English

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About Kelli

Kelli Trueblood-Graves is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing addiction, trauma, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. She frames the work around each person’s strengths and lived experience. Kelli speaks plainly and aims to make first steps feel manageable for someone worried or overwhelmed.

Kelli uses approaches that focus on attachment, cognitive tools, and collaborative care. She helps people notice patterns in relationships, change unhelpful thinking, and build skills for handling strong emotions.

Background and approach

Sessions are practical and aimed at small, doable changes. Across a decade of practice in New Mexico, Kelli has worked with people dealing with grief, intimacy concerns, body image, and post-traumatic stress. She also has experience supporting those navigating adoption and foster care, recovery from domestic violence, and substance use challenges.

Her background includes work with non-monogamous relationships and people exploring kink and alternative sexual cultures. In sessions she leans on client-centered and motivational techniques to help people set goals that matter to them. She uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools when they fit the situation.

Kelli pays attention to how early relationships shape current struggles and brings that into the work. Kelli communicates in English and practices from New Mexico as an LCSW. If someone wants to begin, she recommends a short intake process and a conversation about priorities to shape a simple, realistic plan.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Kelli lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Addictions
LGBT
Trauma and abuse
Parenting issues
Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Family conflicts
Grief
Intimacy-related issues
Eating disorders
Sleeping disorders
Anger management
Self esteem
Coping with life changes
Adoption and foster care
BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
Blended family issues
Body image
Codependency
Dissociation
Divorce and separation
Domestic violence
Drug and alcohol addiction
Eating and food-related issues
Family of origin issues
Personality disorders
Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
Postpartum depression
Post-traumatic stress
Pregnancy and childbirth
Prejudice and discrimination
Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
Self-harm
Sexual assault and abuse
Sexuality
Women's issues
Young adult issues

Approaches Kelli names

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Online support

Attachment, Skills, and Online Support

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current behavior and feelings. It helps people understand why they react the way they do in close relationships and supports changes that improve connection and safety in those relationships.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, which can reduce anxiety, improve mood, and help with sleeping or eating issues.

Kelli also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. Those tools are useful for managing intense emotions and building steadier daily routines.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they try methods that fit and adjust the plan as needed based on what works.

Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is a concern, and live chat or text messaging provide shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into daily life.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does Kelli often help with?

She works with people dealing with addictions, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, grief, body image, eating and sleeping problems, and coping with life changes.

What is her general therapy style?

Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth. She centers the person's strengths and uses client-centered, motivational, and skills-based methods to meet practical goals.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She has ten years of professional experience working in New Mexico with a range of concerns including substance use, domestic violence recovery, and post-traumatic stress.

What are her credentials and where is she based?

She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with the credential LCSW and practices in New Mexico.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.

How does pricing and payment work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

What are the steps to begin working together?

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