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Gleyce Almeida-Farrell, LCSW

Gleyce Almeida-Farrell, LCSW

Founder & CEO of Kellen | Therapist for Professionals, Athletes, and Performers in High-Pressure Roles

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Gleyce Almeida-Farrell is a psychotherapist and founder of Kellen Mental Health who specializes in working with high-performing adults navigating anxiety, burnout, depression, and performance-related stress. She provides therapy for executives, entrepreneurs, elite athletes, entertainers, and high-level sales professionals facing the demands of high-pressure, competitive, and highly visible careers.

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$185+/session
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Gleyce takes a whole-person, integrative approach to therapy, combining psychodynamic and psychoanalytic insight with practical, evidence-based strategies. Her style is direct, collaborative, and results-oriented, helping clients understand the deeper emotional and psychological patterns contributing to anxiety, chronic stress, burnout, self-doubt, and performance pressure.

Her work may include exploring early experiences, relational patterns, attachment, and inner child work to understand how the past continues to shape present-day beliefs, behaviors, relationships, and responses to pressure. She integrates this deeper exploration with cognitive behavioral techniques to create both meaningful insight and practical change.

Gleyce helps clients strengthen emotional regulation, boundaries, confidence, resilience, focus, and a sense of identity beyond achievement. She has a particular interest in working with athletes, performers, executives, and other high-achieving professionals navigating performance anxiety, identity and career transitions, competition, public expectations, and the pressure to consistently perform at a high level.

Therapy for High-Achieving Professionals at Kellen Mental Health

Success doesn’t protect you from stress, anxiety, or burnout. In fact, many executives, entrepreneurs, athletes, and other high performers experience intense pressure to constantly achieve while quietly struggling with perfectionism, self-doubt, or emotional exhaustion. Gleyce specializes in helping ambitious professionals maintain their performance without sacrificing their mental health or personal well-being.

Her approach goes beyond managing symptoms. Gleyce helps clients understand the deeper emotional patterns that contribute to chronic stress, overwork, imposter syndrome, and burnout while building healthier ways to lead, perform, and make decisions. Therapy creates space to strengthen resilience, improve emotional regulation, and reconnect with a sense of purpose that extends beyond achievement alone.

To learn more about our services, explore our Leadership Development, Anxiety Counseling, and Perfectionism & People Pleasing pages. When you’re ready to invest in both your professional success and personal well-being, schedule your first appointment with Gleyce.

Education

Education

Masters, Clinical Social Work, Fordham University

Education

Credentials

Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)

  • State of Georgia (CSW006598)
  • New York State (#087306)

Gleyce's Blog Posts

Thoughtful Ways to Break Toxic Habits

Thoughtful Ways to Break Toxic Habits

It’s good to see you here.  You’ve read the blogs, tips, and posts with catchy ideas that make you think about how to break the toxic patterns holding you back.

Generational Trauma & The Menendez Story

Generational Trauma & The Menendez Story

With Netflix releasing both “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” a dramatization of the Menendez brothers’ story helmed by Ryan Murphy, and the documentary “The Menendez Brothers,” featuring new

Healing From Shame: Releasing the Burdens of Relational Trauma

Healing From Shame: Releasing the Burdens of Relational Trauma

Relational trauma often manifests as heavy shame. This blog offers ideas for healing from shame, with connection to others and self-compassion.

How Mindset Matters in Unleashing Your Peak Performance

How Mindset Matters in Unleashing Your Peak Performance

Limiting beliefs hold you back from performance optimization at work. Learn how to shift your mindset away from limiting beliefs and toward growth and achievement.

Overcoming People Pleasing for Professional Growth

Overcoming People Pleasing for Professional Growth

People pleasing can lead directly to resentment, burnout, career stalling, diminished professional growth, and stress.

How to be a Better Leader: Mind-Body Connection Tips for Effective Leadership

How to be a Better Leader: Mind-Body Connection Tips for Effective Leadership

A strong mind-body connection can defuse stress and improve agility in tough situations. Learn mindfulness tips for effective leadership.

How to Handle Negative Feedback at Work

How to Handle Negative Feedback at Work

Developing resilience in the face of negative feedback can be the key to personal and professional growth.

Perfectionism and Imposter Syndrome: The Vicious Cycle and How to Break Free

Perfectionism and Imposter Syndrome: The Vicious Cycle and How to Break Free

Perfectionism and imposter syndrome feed into each other, causing stress and keeping you from the career satisfaction you deserve. There are many ways to cope with perfectionism and to thrive

Tackling Negativity Bias and Cultivating a Growth Mindset

Tackling Negativity Bias and Cultivating a Growth Mindset

Times feel particularly tough right now. It might seem like wherever you turn, there’s bad news about the economy, the planet, politics, society, work, other people, your own health, and

How to Stop Procrastinating

How to Stop Procrastinating

Procrastination can be a real productivity killer. Learn how to stop procrastinating, set goals, and improve your time management skills with this helpful guide.

Healing From Perfectionism 

Healing From Perfectionism 

Do you beat yourself up over small mistakes, take ages to write an email, and feel like if you’re not perfect, you’re not good enough? Chances are, you may be suffering

How to Regulate Your Nervous System

How to Regulate Your Nervous System

We’re exploring the secrets of the nervous system, discussing holistic issues that may arise from a chronically dysregulated system, and sharing polyvagal techniques that explain how to regulate your nervous

Health & Wellness Buzzwords Defined

Health & Wellness Buzzwords Defined

Get to know some of the most frequently used terms in the alternative medicine community, what qualifies someone to be a holistic or integrative practitioner, and how to find the

What is Inner Child Work?

What is Inner Child Work?

There has been an increase in popularity of inner child work in recent years. In addition to helping you overcome childhood trauma, inner child work can also help you improve

How to Manage Occupational Burnout

How to Manage Occupational Burnout

Did you know that more than half of the US workforce identifies along the burnout spectrum? In this guide, we’re encouraging employers and employees to learn how to recognize burnout

A Brief Guide to Setting Clear Boundaries

A Brief Guide to Setting Clear Boundaries

Boundaries are some of the most important tools we can use throughout our lives, but what are they? How do we use them for ourselves, coworkers, family, and friends?

A Guide to Anxiety

A Guide to Anxiety

We experience anxiety in many ways, but if there’s one thing central to the experience, it’s a sense of uncertainty.

4 Coping Skills to Manage Anxiety

4 Coping Skills to Manage Anxiety

Anxiety doesn’t have an on/off switch; rather, the choices we make can add up to an increased sense of calm. Here are 4 easy ways to manage anxiety.

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Disclaimer

The ideas and suggestions provided in these books are not a substitute for seeking professional guidance. Neither our therapists, the publisher, nor the author shall be held liable or responsible for any loss or damage allegedly arising from any suggestion or information contained in these books.

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