SOUTH HILLS, PA · TELEHEALTH STATEWIDE
Kelly Schworn, LPC
“I strive to create a warm, affirming, and nonjudgmental space.”
Kelly Schworn is a Licensed Professional Counselor at CPA Counseling’s South Hills office, also seeing clients by secure telehealth across Pennsylvania. She offers sessions in English and Spanish, and works with teens, young adults, and adults on anxiety, depression, trauma, identity, life transitions, codependency, and self-esteem — with particular focus on LGBTQIA+ clients. Her approach is person-centered and affirming.
WHO KELLY WORKS WITH
Who she’s for
Kelly works with teens, young adults, and adults, individually, in English or Spanish. Eight years in practice, with identity and trauma running through most of it.
why work with Kelly
In the language you think in
Therapy asks you to describe things you have never described. Doing that in a second language adds a translation step to every sentence, and the translated version is always slightly less true. Kelly works in English and Spanish, so you can say it the way you actually think it.
HOW KELLY WORKS
Person-centered first, practical alongside
Kelly’s foundation is the Rogerian tradition, with cognitive and motivational work added where it helps. The order matters — the relationship comes first, and the techniques sit inside it.
CONDITIONS TREATED
What Kelly treats – who Kelly sees
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Trauma
- Life Transitions
- Codependency
- Women’s Mental Health
- LGBTQ+
- School / Academic
- Workplace Stress
- Self-Esteem
En español
Therapy in Spanish — one of two in the practice
“My hope is to support clients in feeling seen, heard, and empowered to navigate life’s challenges with greater confidence and self-compassion.”
CARE PHILOSOPHY
Unconditional positive regard. Which is a method, not a mood.
Kelly’s approach is grounded in the Rogerian, person-centered tradition — empathy, authenticity, and unconditional positive regard. Those are technical terms rather than pleasantries. In practice they mean you are not being evaluated while you speak, and the version of you that shows up does not need to be the presentable one.
She values each person’s identity, cultural background, and lived experience as part of the clinical picture rather than background noise. That shapes how the work runs for LGBTQIA+ clients and for Spanish-speaking clients in particular, where too much of the hour otherwise goes to explanation.
Therapy, in her view, is collaborative and guided by your needs, strengths, and goals. The aim is that you leave feeling seen, heard, and able to meet what is in front of you with more confidence and more self-compassion than you arrived with.
ABOUT KELLY
Seen, heard, and taken at your word
Kelly Schworn is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Her approach is grounded in the Rogerian, person-centered tradition, emphasizing empathy, authenticity, and unconditional positive regard.
She strives to create a warm, affirming, and nonjudgmental space where clients feel safe to explore their experiences, build self-understanding, and work toward meaningful growth. She enjoys working with teens, young adults, Spanish-speaking individuals, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.
As a bilingual therapist, Kelly offers sessions in both English and Spanish so clients can process their experiences in whichever language feels most natural. She values each person’s unique identity, cultural background, and lived experience, and believes therapy is a collaborative process guided by the client’s needs, strengths, and goals.
Her work covers anxiety, depression, trauma, identity development, life transitions, codependency, and self-esteem. She holds an MS from California University of Pennsylvania and sees clients at the South Hills office and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.
Languages Spoken
One of two bilingual clinicians
Teens, Young Adults & LGBTQIA+
Identity, trauma and wellbeing
Personalized Care Plans
No program commitments required
CONDITION GUIDE
Therapy guides from Kelly Schworn
Mental Health
What Taylor Swift Teaches Us About Parasocial Connection
Why millions feel they truly know someone they’ve never met — the psychology of parasocial connection, when it’s comforting, and when it’s telling you something.
Anxiety
When Anxiety Starts Making the Rules
Anxiety rarely announces itself as anxiety — it arrives as good judgment, feeling like being careful, responsible, or thinking ahead, and by the time you notice, it may have been making your decisions for years. OCD is mostly internal: intrusive thoughts, mental checking, rumination, reassurance-seeking. Both respond well to treatment.
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