Taylor Kent (Gibbs) , LCSW

Taylor Kent (Gibbs) is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - practicing in Indiana with nine years of clinical experience. She has master's and bachelor's degrees in social work from Indiana University and has spent most of her time working with adolescents and adults.

Taylor takes a down-to-earth, conversational approach in sessions. She looks for strengths in each person and helps them use those strengths to meet goals. Her style is encouraging and often a bit laid back, with room for humor when it fits.

She often helps people who are coping with anxiety, depression, trauma, mood concerns such as bipolar, and struggles with self-esteem or addictions. She also supports people facing issues related to parenting, grief, LGBT concerns, family conflict, and life changes. Additional areas she focuses on include attachment and abandonment concerns, body image, codependency, and guilt or shame.

Taylor blends practical strategies from cognitive and dialectical behavior approaches with attachment-based and client-centered ideas. She uses mindfulness and motivational techniques to build skills for emotion regulation, communication, and coping. Treatment plans are personalized and not tied to a label.

She emphasizes creating a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people can be honest and feel heard. Taylor welcomes questions about fit and expects to collaborate with each person to find the best path forward, including working on problems common in women's lives when relevant.

Therapeutic methods and online care that fit your life

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then take action toward what matters. It is often useful for anxiety, stress, and navigating life changes.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like depression or anxiety. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds practical emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills for intense emotions and relationship strain.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as progress is made.

Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video is good for deeper conversational work, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is low, live chat allows brief check-ins, and messaging can support ongoing skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain consistency and fit therapy into a busy life.