About Caryn
Caryn Kelley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of recent clinical experience. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, depression, or life changes. Caryn offers a calm, listening presence so people can sort through what matters most to them.
Her approach begins with getting to know a person’s strengths and daily struggles. She uses client-centered work to follow what matters to each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools help identify unhelpful thoughts and build more effective habits.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness practices teach skills for managing strong emotions and staying grounded. Caryn has worked across different settings and with many concerns, including addiction, caregiver stress, sleep problems, and low self-esteem. She also supports people facing chronic illness, family-of-origin issues, and career stress.
Her experience includes helping people cope with relationship challenges, parenting strain, and changes that come with aging. Sessions focus on clear, practical steps alongside empathetic listening. People can expect time to talk, try new perspectives, and practice skills between meetings.
Caryn emphasizes motivatonal conversations when change feels hard and steady support when people need to process strong feelings. She is licensed as an LCSW in Illinois and conducts work in English. The goal is to help people gain clarity, trust their own decisions, and build routines that ease daily life.
How Caryn’s Approaches Work Online
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. Online sessions can include exercises to track thoughts and practice new routines between meetings. Dialectical Behavior Therapy teaches emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills that translate well to brief coaching during video or text check-ins.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about your goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together you’ll choose strategies to try and adjust them over time based on what feels useful and realistic for your life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let you speak face to face and work through exercises together. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick support, skill reminders, or ongoing encouragement between sessions, making it simpler to practice new habits on your schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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