Hunter Keenan, MS
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Hunter Keenan
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I'm grateful to be a therapist at Philadelphia Integrative Psychiatry, where teamwork and communication are truly valued so we can provide the highest quality of care to our clients. When you have access to the strengths of the whole team, there's support through every stumble and a community behind every change.
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Hunter is a master’s-level, pre-licensed associate therapist who provides individual and family counseling to children, teenagers, young adults, and adults. He earned his Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and is currently a Licensed Associate Professional Counselor (LAPC) candidate working toward full licensure as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC).
Hunter’s goal is to help clients feel freely, think flexibly, and act intentionally. He works with individuals to cultivate emotional balance and gain control over their focus by processing the past, engaging the present, and building a future optimized for health and well-being. Operating from the core belief that every emotion, thought, and behavior is inherently trying to protect or help us, he assists clients in finding the value and lessons within every experience to better adapt to life’s demands.
Hunter brings a science-first approach to therapy, utilizing evidence-based practices and study-supported lifestyle and behavioral interventions tailored to each individual's unique needs. By combining behavioral therapy, cognitive strategies, and clinical hypnosis, he helps clients accelerate neuroplastic change, allowing them to internalize and maintain new habits with greater efficiency.
In his family work, Hunter guides highly invested parents through modern information overload and competing parenting theories. He supports parents in letting go of harsh self-judgment while equipping them to effectively model and teach their children how to regulate emotions, build resilience, and develop the routines necessary to grow into independent, healthy, and sociable adults. Hunter also helps families connect amidst the unique pressures of modern youth culture and across generational differences. Additionally, he is passionate about mentoring motivated young adults—particularly young men—as they untangle conflicting and often limiting messages of masculinity. He helps them develop a healthy, functional identity as a man that uniquely works for them, their relationships, and their responsibilities as they forge their own path forward.
Hunter’s clinical style is deeply person-centered, humanistic, and infused with natural warmth, transparency, and humor. He excels at making complex neurological science and abstract concepts feel grounded, relatable, and highly actionable. His practice operates on the fundamental principle that a healthy mind relies on a healthy brain, which ultimately stems from a healthy body. Through this functional lens, he partners with clients to optimize foundational lifestyle elements, including diet, exercise, sleep, personal environments, social connection, and stress management.
He utilizes his advanced fellowship in functional and integrative psychiatry and graduate studies in applied nutrition to help clients implement behavioral strategies that regulate inflammation and stabilize blood sugar, which are often root causes of cognitive and emotional distress. He also helps clients who are fatigued by chronic pain management. By optimizing metabolic health, our brains and bodies can transition from a state of tension and scarcity to one of relaxed abundance, providing the cellular energy required to do deep emotional work and make lasting behavioral changes.
This integrative framework is built on a versatile clinical foundation spanning school, home, and community settings. Hunter’s background includes biological research, consulting on community health initiatives, providing intensive in-home family therapy for complex trauma, and working in special education. In practice, he blends evidence-based tools from clinical hypnosis, applied behavior analysis, cognitive behavioral therapy, and motivational interviewing. This rigorous intersection of biological science, behavioral strategy, and systemic family care allows Hunter to offer a truly unique, results-oriented space where clients can fully access their potential.
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PennWest University - M.S. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Lehigh University - B.A. in Economics, minors in Entrepreneurship and Biology
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UK College of Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy certification in Cognitive-Behavioral Hypnotherapy
Psychiatry Redefined Fellowship in Integrative and Functional Psychiatry
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Applying for LAPC
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