About Chelsea
Chelsea Edwards is a licensed marriage and family therapist with eight years of clinical experience. She earned a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and holds LMFT credentials in Georgia and Connecticut. Chelsea started helping people early in life and now focuses on supporting adults as they navigate stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and life transitions.
Chelsea’s background includes work in group homes and community settings with teens and adults.
Background and approach
She has provided in-home therapy and outpatient care, and has experience with trauma, mood disorders, and complex life challenges. Those experiences shaped her interest in how family and social systems influence a person’s daily life. Her style is warm, interactive, and encouraging.
Sessions are direct but compassionate, with an emphasis on practical steps clients can try between meetings. Chelsea aims to create a non-judgmental space where people feel heard and motivated to make change. She draws on a range of approaches to fit each person’s situation.
Techniques come from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior therapies, mindfulness, narrative methods, and solution-focused work. Chelsea tailors conversations and plans to match what a person needs right now. Clients often come for help with parenting stress, family and relationship problems, grief, career concerns, body image, codependency, and coping after loss or trauma.
Chelsea also supports people facing identity questions, compassion fatigue, and challenges tied to adoption or blended families. Chelsea works with adults and helps them set realistic goals. She encourages small, steady steps toward better coping and clearer communication.
If someone is ready to take the next step, she guides them through scheduling and the early planning of therapy.
How Chelsea Uses Evidence-Based Methods Online
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Chelsea uses CBT to help people identify unhelpful thought patterns and test new ways of thinking that reduce anxiety and improve mood.Dialectical Behavior Therapy emphasizes skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness. DBT techniques can help when anxiety, anger, or relationship conflicts feel overwhelming.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Chelsea will discuss goals and try methods that match a person’s needs and preferences. She treats the process as collaborative and adjusts strategies based on what is helping most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video is useful for deeper conversation and learning skills visually. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, quick coaching, or keeping momentum between longer sessions.
These flexible formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue steady work on anxiety, relationships, parenting stress, and life transitions with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut, Georgia
- Languages
- English
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