Kathleen “Kathy” Kelly , LCSW

Kathleen “Kathy” Kelly is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 38 years of experience in community behavioral health and educational settings. She focuses on practical help for everyday struggles like anxiety, depression, parenting stress, and trauma. Kathy uses straightforward language and a warm manner to help people talk through what feels overwhelming.

She adapts her approach to each person. Sessions are goal-oriented and focus on skills that can be used between meetings. Kathy draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful patterns and uses mindfulness to help people stay grounded in the moment.

Her work also addresses issues such as caregiving stress, body image, eating and sleep problems, obsessive habits, panic attacks, and challenges young adults often face. Women who want to focus on issues particular to their lives may find her experience relevant, alongside work with LGBT concerns and relationship or family tensions.

Kathy brings a calm, nonjudgmental style to sessions and aims to create a respectful space for honest conversation. She emphasizes clear, manageable goals and practical steps to reduce distress and build coping skills.

Clients can expect a mix of problem-solving, behavior changes, and mindfulness practice that fits their pace. Kathy explains strategies plainly and supports clients as they try new ways of handling stress and change.

Online approaches that meet you where you are

Therapy often blends practical techniques and present-moment awareness. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and replacing them with clearer, more useful practices. It is often used for anxiety, depression, panic, and patterns that interfere with daily life.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention skills to reduce reactivity and increase calm. It can help with stress, sleep issues, emotional overwhelm, and when intrusive thoughts make it hard to focus. Motivational Interviewing is a brief, collaborative style that helps people find their own reasons to change and strengthen motivation for goals like healthier habits or treatment engagement.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Kathy will talk with each person about needs, goals, and preferences and will tailor techniques together so therapy feels useful and manageable. That collaborative selection helps keep sessions focused on what matters most to the client.

Online sessions make regular therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing feedback between appointments. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and make it easier to keep consistent progress.