About Chelsea
Chelsea Poulos is an LMSW (licensed Master of Social Work) with ten years of experience helping people manage everyday challenges. She focuses on clear, practical work that addresses stress, anxiety, relationships, and parenting concerns. Chelsea keeps sessions calm and direct so people can make steady progress.
Her approach blends attachment-based ideas with solution-focused methods. She pays attention to how relationships shape feelings and behavior, and then works with clients to set realistic goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often include concrete steps to reduce overwhelm and improve communication. Chelsea has supported people coping with trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and compassion fatigue. She also helps with ADHD, postpartum depression, and social anxiety and phobia.
Her experience includes working with developmental and intellectual disability issues and with caregivers facing chronic stress. Therapy with Chelsea centers on listening closely and responding to what each person needs that day. She uses client-centered techniques to follow the person’s lead while offering structure when it helps.
Progress is measured in small, practical changes that fit daily life. People who choose her can expect patient, steady support and an emphasis on workable strategies. Chelsea works from Michigan and conducts sessions in English.
She aims to make therapy approachable and relevant to real-life problems.
How Chelsea’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in relationships and how early bonds affect present feelings and reactions. Online sessions can explore those patterns through conversation and real-time reflection, helping people notice and change how they connect with others. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and following the person’s lead, giving space to talk about what feels most urgent and shaping each session to those needs. Solution-focused work targets small, achievable steps and uses brief, practical planning to build momentum and reduce overwhelm.Chelsea treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will discuss goals, preferences, and immediate concerns together and adjust methods based on what is most helpful. That way the work stays relevant and responsive to changing needs.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low or a quieter setup is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between appointments or use shorter, focused communication when that fits better into a day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and flexible.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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