Keith Ripley

Hi, I'm Keith. For more than 30 years, I've been walking alongside people as they work through life's hardest moments and build something better on the other side.

My work centers on two areas where I've seen the deepest need: addiction and recovery, and the anxiety, depression, and trauma that so often travel alongside it. If you're struggling with substance use, or a co-occurring mental health condition is tangled up with it, I can help you make sense of what's happening and find a path through it that actually fits your life. I use Motivational Interviewing to help you find and strengthen your own reasons for change, rather than telling you what to do, and I bring a trauma-informed lens to every conversation, so we move at a pace that feels safe rather than overwhelming.

I also work with clients navigating relationship difficulties and major life transitions — a divorce, a career change, a new diagnosis, becoming a caregiver. Whatever brought you here, my approach is the same: I meet you where you are, listen closely, and give you honest, practical feedback rather than vague reassurance. I draw from a range of therapeutic approaches and tailor the work to your specific goals rather than fitting you into one method.

Some of what I bring to this work comes from my own life. I'm married and raising five children, two with special needs, so I understand firsthand what it means to face uncertainty, advocate hard for the people you love, and keep going anyway. That experience shapes the empathy and realism I bring into the room.

Therapy works best when it's a true partnership. I'll be honest with you, I'll help you identify your strengths as well as what's getting in the way, and together we'll build a plan that leads somewhere real. If any of this sounds like what you're looking for, I'd be glad to work with you.