Individual Counseling
A supportive space to explore your experiences, strengthen coping skills and work through challenges affecting your emotional well-being and personal growth.
Request an appointmentIn-person & telehealth counseling · Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
Life can throw unexpected challenges your way.
You don’t have to face them alone. Compassionate counseling for individuals, couples and families navigating emotional challenges, relationship concerns and meaningful life transitions.
A supportive place to feel heard, understood and cared for.
Currently accepting new clients
A space to pause, reflect and move forward.
A place to feel supported
Whatever life brings, we can work through it together.
Working through life’s challenges is not always easy, especially when you feel like you are carrying them alone. Mālama Counseling Services offers a supportive and compassionate space where you can feel heard, better understand what you are experiencing and begin moving forward with greater clarity.
Whether you are seeking support for yourself, your relationship or your ʻohana, you have already taken an important first step.
Meet KaliCounseling services
Care shaped around you.
Thoughtful, personalized support for people and families through different seasons of life.
Couples Counseling
Thoughtful guidance for couples seeking healthier communication, deeper understanding and constructive ways to navigate conflict and change.
Request an appointmentFamily Counseling
Collaborative support for families experiencing conflict, transitions, behavioral concerns or difficulties communicating and connecting with one another.
Request an appointmentAreas of support
Meet life with greater clarity.
Kali works with a wide range of emotional, behavioral and relationship concerns.
Emotional Well-Being
Relationships & Family
Children & Adolescents
Life & Personal Growth
Don’t see your specific concern listed? Reach out to learn whether Mālama Counseling Services may be the right fit for your needs.
Meet your therapist
Aloha, I’m Kali.
As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, I have more than 20 years of experience supporting individuals, couples and families across home, school, clinical and community settings.
I am here to wholeheartedly support you as you navigate unexpected challenges and grow into the person, couple or ʻohana you aspire to become. My role is to gently guide you as you explore your past, understand where you are today and work toward a healthier future.
Together, we will identify solutions that reflect your needs, experiences and goals. I applaud the courage it takes to seek support, and I look forward to walking alongside you and your ʻohana.
Kali IkemotoLicensed Marriage and Family Therapist
How Kali works
Personalized care, without rigid frameworks.
Kali practices integrative psychotherapy, meeting each client where they are and shaping therapy around their individual needs, goals and pace.
He blends the deeper insight of psychodynamic therapy with practical, present-moment tools from CBT, DBT and mindfulness. Together, Kali and each client create a thoughtful path toward healing and growth.
Integrative
Different therapeutic theories come together in one cohesive, personalized treatment plan.
Eclectic
Effective techniques are selected from different disciplines to support practical problem-solving.
Client-Centered
Each modality is tailored to the client’s experiences, priorities and preferred pace.
Inside the practice
A comfortable space to feel at ease.
The private Honolulu office is arranged to welcome individuals, couples, families and younger clients in a calm, comfortable setting.
Who Kali serves
Support through every season of life.
Insurance
Making care more accessible.
Mālama Counseling Services is currently in network with select Hawaiʻi insurance plans. Coverage and benefits vary, so clients are encouraged to confirm their behavioral-health benefits directly with their insurance provider.
- AlohaCare
- BlueCross and BlueShield
- Hawaii Medical Assurance Association
- Hawaii Medical Service Association
- University Health Alliance
Insurance participation and client benefits are subject to change. Please verify coverage before your first appointment.
Secure online scheduling
Ready to take the next step?
Use the secure SimplePractice portal below to request an appointment and complete the appropriate client forms.
Visit the office
Visit the Honolulu office.
In-person appointments are offered at the Ala Moana Medical Building. Telehealth appointments are also available.
Mālama Counseling Services LLCAla Moana Medical Building · Suite 1740
1441 Kapiolani Boulevard
Honolulu, HI 96814
Free parkingFree parking is available at Ala Moana Center. Entrances to the medical building are accessible from the first, third and fourth floors.
Business hours
Tuesday–Friday9:00 AM–5:00 PM
Saturday9:00 AM–2:00 PM
Get in touch
Have a general question?
Send a message below. For appointment requests and client forms, please use the secure SimplePractice portal.
(808) 853-8189
kikemoto@malamacounseling.com
Ala Moana Medical Building · Suite 1740
1441 Kapiolani Boulevard
Honolulu, HI 96814
1441 Kapiolani Boulevard
Honolulu, HI 96814
Need immediate support?
Mālama Counseling Services is not an emergency or crisis-response service. If you or someone you know is experiencing an immediate emergency, call 911. For 24-hour crisis support in the United States, call or text 988. Please do not use this website or its contact form for urgent mental-health concerns.