About Chelsea
Dr. Chelsea Bennett is a licensed social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship struggles. She draws on practical tools to address trauma, addictions, intimacy questions, and life transitions.
Her manner is straightforward and encouraging, aimed at people who want clear steps and steady support. She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about painful memories and daily worries. Sessions focus on learning skills that can be used between meetings, such as managing intense emotions or changing unhelpful thinking patterns.
Background and approach
She combines short-term problem solving with skills-building for longer term change. Dr. Bennett uses methods from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people notice thoughts, choose values-based actions, and reduce avoidance.
She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy for emotion regulation and the Gottman Method for relationship concerns. Solution-focused techniques help clients set small, doable goals and track progress. Her background includes six years of clinical work and licensure as an LISW and an LCSW, with practice in Indiana.
That clinical experience includes work with trauma and abuse and many kinds of stress-related issues. She supports people dealing with parenting strain, adoption and foster care matters, first responder and veteran challenges, and work-related stress. Sessions are offered in English and can be delivered through a variety of online formats.
Dr. Bennett emphasizes collaboration - she and the client plan the work together and adjust approaches as needs change.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Dr. Bennett often uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in session. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to change mood and stress. Acceptance and commitment therapy focuses on clarifying personal values and taking meaningful action even when difficult thoughts or feelings show up.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. She will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and day-to-day life, and she adapts strategies as progress unfolds. The plan is collaborative and revisited as needed to keep it practical and relevant.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging offers flexibility for different schedules and situations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper work, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and practice new skills in real life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Indiana, Washington
- Languages
- English
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