Kelly Peters , LCPC

Kelly Peters is a licensed counselor (LCPC) with 35 years of experience. She focuses on helping adults who are facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, and challenges related to women’s issues. Her manner is warm, respectful, and collaborative, and she aims to help people take practical steps toward change.

Kelly uses straightforward talk and concrete tools in sessions. She blends cognitive behavioral ideas with acceptance-based strategies and a client-centered stance to help people notice what matters and take action. She also draws on skills from emotion-focused and dialectical approaches when emotions run high.

Clients are invited to shape the work. Sessions often begin with what feels most pressing and then move to small, doable experiments between meetings. Kelly writes short, clear goals with each person and checks in about what helps and what does not.

Her experience includes work with addiction, codependency, family of origin issues, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and life transitions. She also brings background in grief work, trauma-informed care, and support around identity and LGBT concerns.

Kelly has worked in many clinical settings over her career and offers a practical, paced approach for people who want steady progress. She encourages anyone who is ready for change to take a first step and arrange a time to talk.

How Kelly’s Approaches Work Online

Kelly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thinking and test new behavior in daily life. CBT is practical and often focuses on small experiments and skills people can use between sessions.

She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy which helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions tied to personal values. ACT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where holding steady matters more than quick fixes.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kelly will discuss goals and preferences and tailor methods so they match what the person hopes to change. That collaboration helps pick whether more skills practice, values work, or emotion-focused conversation is best.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for face-to-face conversation, phone can fit a busy schedule or lower bandwidth, and messaging is useful for brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options let people fit therapy around work, caregiving, or treatment for chronic health issues.