About Chelsey
Chelsey Fouts is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in California who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She aims to create a trusting relationship where clients feel heard and respected. Her style is warm and strengths-focused, with practical support to help people take steps forward.
Chelsey looks for negative thought patterns and helps clients challenge those beliefs. She teaches skills for day-to-day coping so people can reduce overwhelm and feel more in control.
Background and approach
She also helps clients connect how past experiences influence current feelings and behavior. <brHer work includes supporting recovery from post-traumatic stress and panic attacks. She often addresses relationship strain, communication problems, self-esteem, and social anxiety. Her background includes several years treating anxiety, depression, and trauma in both youth and adults.
Chelsey uses ideas from Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, solution-focused methods, and psychodynamic approaches to guide sessions. She offers structure and practical guidance while encouraging clients to discover their own strengths. In the first session she focuses on what brought someone to therapy and how they have been coping.
She asks about symptoms, stressors, supports, and goals so together they can set priorities. Over time she monitors progress and adjusts the plan to match what is working for each person.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Chelsey draws on evidence-based techniques to guide sessions in ways that focus on symptoms and skills. Dialectical Behavior Therapy ideas help people learn emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. These skills are useful for panic, intense anxiety, and relationship strain.Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy concepts help clients connect past experiences with present reactions and build safer ways of coping. This approach can support work on post-traumatic stress and processing difficult memories.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, try methods that fit those aims, and adjust as progress is reviewed. Decisions about technique are shaped by what the client finds most helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and messaging work for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to schedule consistent work on anxiety, trauma, and daily stress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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