Kelly Wooldridge , LCSW

Kelly Wooldridge is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience. She uses practical talk and clear tools to help people manage stress, anxiety, anger, and depression. Kelly often supports clients navigating family concerns and issues related to trauma and abuse.

Her approach focuses on building skills that fit daily life. She blends cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness and acceptance strategies to reduce distress and improve coping. Attachment-based ideas inform work around connection, abandonment, and family of origin struggles.

Kelly also draws on dialectical behavior strategies for emotion regulation and communication skills. She uses parts of the Gottman Method when relationship patterns and communication are a central concern. Sessions emphasize simple exercises, short-term goals, and practical steps to try between meetings.

Over three decades she has supported people facing adoption and foster care questions, blended family issues, body image and commitment concerns, and problems with control or emptiness. She has experience addressing substance-related challenges and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD) related concerns.

Sessions are delivered in English from her Nevada practice. Kelly aims to tailor conversation and a care plan to each person's needs. Her style is steady and direct, focused on helping people make manageable changes and feel more in charge of daily life.

Approaches that translate well to online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values. It helps with anxiety, low mood, and getting unstuck by teaching simple exercises to try between sessions.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections shape current relationships. It helps people who struggle with trust, abandonment worries, or family of origin patterns by identifying interaction cycles and practicing new ways of connecting.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks worries and habits into manageable steps. It teaches skills to reframe unhelpful thoughts and build new behaviors, which can be practiced in daily life and reviewed during sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and preferences. That decision is revisited as progress is made so the plan stays useful and realistic.

Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people see body language and do deeper work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coping tools, and keeping momentum between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try strategies in everyday settings.