About Frankie
Frankie McKelvin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in South Carolina with ten years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship and family challenges, and issues related to identity and intimacy. Frankie aims to create straightforward, practical plans that people can use between sessions.
She uses clear, active work in sessions. Clients can expect to talk through current problems, set short-term goals, and try steps between meetings like journaling or small behavioral changes.
Background and approach
Frankie describes therapy as collaborative - she asks clients to take part both during sessions and at home. Her approach draws on client-centered techniques and cognitive behavioral ideas to help clients identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. She also uses narrative and solution-focused methods to help people reframe their stories and find immediate steps forward.
These methods are adapted to each person's needs. Frankie has worked with people from diverse cultural backgrounds and often addresses concerns like adoption and foster care issues, attachment questions, body image, caregiver stress, and multicultural or discrimination-related stress. She also supports people dealing with addiction, eating concerns, and career or life-change transitions.
Sessions may include practical exercises, homework, and direct skill-building. Frankie encourages consistent effort and follow-through so that gains made in the therapy room carry over into daily life. Her goal is to help clients leave feeling more able to cope and with clearer next steps.
Approaches you can use online
Client-centered therapy emphasizes being heard and understood. The therapist follows the person's lead, reflects what they say, and helps them clarify their own goals and values. This approach is useful when someone needs support making sense of feelings or deciding what matters most.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It often includes practical exercises and homework to try between sessions and can help with anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods, and adjust plans based on what helps. That collaborative process helps match techniques to the person's needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers a range of session formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and body language. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging can fit into busy days and let people share between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines while still using active methods like CBT and client-centered work.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Visually impaired
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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