Kelley is a Family Therapist working with couples, families, and relationships. She has expertise with clients in person and online. Her style is friendly, warm, and engaging. She focuses on her client's strengths and resources, as well as the things they are currently doing right to enhance and develop ways to face the changes and challenges that bring them to therapy. Kelley also works with individuals with issues of depression, anxiety, stress, and PTSD. She also specializes in working with children with special needs, divorce, bereavement, abuse, anger issues, anxiety, and trauma. Her work with couples helps them to navigate different problems such as infidelity, remarriage, loneliness, and distance. She works with coaching parents on practical parenting skills. She has received her degrees in Child & Family Development & Marriage and Family Therapy.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
Kelley is eclectic in her approach and offers an integrative approach to client-centered therapy, using traditional psycho-dynamic and family systems work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and cognitive processing therapy for trauma work. She tempers the process with creativity and humor, along with practical solutions and concrete goals. When she is serving in the counselor role, she provides a non-judgmental and compassionate atmosphere in which clients can safely explore and work through feelings, thoughts, and beliefs as they stem from the conscious or unconscious part of the brain and often cause clients to get stuck in irrational thoughts. Kelley offers counseling services to people of every race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.
What treatment methods and tools do you utilize?
Solution-focused, Trauma based models, family systems work, traditional psycho-dynamic and cognitive processing.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
She focuses on her client's strengths and resources, as well as the things they are currently doing right to enhance and develop ways to face the changes and challenges that bring them to therapy.