About Kathleen
Kathleen “Kathy” Kelly is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 38 years of experience in community behavioral health and educational settings. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship and family concerns. Kathy offers steady, respectful support for people navigating big life changes or ongoing challenges.
She keeps sessions practical and goal-focused. Kathy works with people to set clear, manageable goals and to practice skills between meetings.
Background and approach
She commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to address anxious thoughts and unhelpful behavior patterns. Her style is warm, non-judgmental, and nurturing. She adapts her approach to each person's needs and preferences, mixing strategies such as solution-focused work and motivational interviewing when helpful.
This makes sessions feel collaborative and oriented toward concrete steps. Kathy has long experience helping with parenting stress, caregiver strain, eating and sleep problems, and body image concerns. She also supports those coping with grief, bipolar mood issues, obsessive and compulsive behaviors, panic, social anxiety, and trauma-related reactions.
In sessions she often teaches stress-management tools and mindfulness practices that people can use in daily life. She helps people notice patterns, try small changes, and track progress over time. Her aim is to help people feel more capable of handling worry and the setbacks life brings.
Approaches that translate to online care
Therapy often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. CBT helps with anxiety, panic, obsessive thoughts, and mood problems by teaching practical steps and experiments to change how you respond to stress.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and calm the body. These skills can help with worry, sleep troubles, eating issues, and emotional ups and downs.
Motivational interviewing supports people who want to make changes but feel stuck or uncertain. It focuses on your own reasons for change and builds small achievable steps toward your goals.
Kathy treats choosing an approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with you about your needs, goals, and preferences and try methods that fit. If something isn’t working she will adjust recommendations so the work feels useful and doable.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video lets you work face to face, phone can be a lower-bandwidth option, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and daily life while continuing the same therapeutic methods used in person.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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