About Kelley
Kelley Turner is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) based in Ohio with 20 years of experience. She uses a warm, client-centered style and helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. Kelley focuses on practical steps people can use each week to feel steadier and more able to cope.
She has worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings. That background gives her familiarity with a range of concerns from day-to-day stress to more complex mood and attachment issues.
Background and approach
Kelley helps people talk through grief, career shifts, parenting strain, intimacy-related worries, and compassion fatigue. Kelley draws from several approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and client-centered methods. She adapts techniques to fit each person’s goals and pace.
Sessions aim to build skills, notice patterns, and try small changes between meetings. Her style is direct and encouraging. She works with clients to create an open space where feelings and thoughts can be shared without judgment.
Kelley notes that some concerns are handled differently when working online, and she will discuss safety and fit up front. People who start work with Kelley often come for help with anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship communication, or major life changes. She encourages practical steps and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
If someone wants to explore change, Kelley supports them through each stage of the process.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Kelley commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that match their values. ACT focuses on small, concrete steps so people can act despite worry or doubt.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new, more balanced thoughts. CBT often includes short experiments and homework that are easy to do between online sessions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy is used when relationship or intimacy concerns are central; it helps people name and share deeper feelings to shift interaction patterns.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Kelley will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then recommend techniques to try. She adjusts methods as needed so the work fits the person’s pace and life situation.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can fit quick check-ins or reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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