About Kelli
Kelli Bouscher is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She draws on nearly a decade of clinical experience to help people with stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, relationship struggles, trauma, and self-esteem difficulties. Kelli writes in a direct, practical way and focuses on helping clients make usable changes in day-to-day life.
She uses a mix of approaches rather than one single method. That means sessions often include straightforward skills work, attention to how relationships shape feelings, and efforts to understand patterns that keep problems repeating.
Background and approach
This approach is useful for people who want tools they can use between appointments. Kelli has worked with people affected by trauma and addiction and has spent time addressing behavior patterns that come from family history and attachment wounds. She pays attention to communication problems, codependency, commitment fears, and feelings of emptiness that often appear with relationship stress.
In sessions she uses parts of cognitive behavioral therapy - CBT - and dialectical behavior therapy - DBT - alongside attachment-based and client-centered ideas. Those methods help people notice thoughts and habits, build emotion regulation skills, and repair or strengthen relationship patterns. The Gottman Method is included when working on relationship issues.
Practical steps are central to Kelli's work. Clients can expect clear strategies for coping, ways to practice new behaviors, and conversations that connect current struggles to past experiences. Her goal is steady, manageable progress rather than quick fixes.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current emotional reactions and connection styles. It helps people understand patterns of closeness, fear of abandonment, and the ways past bonds influence present relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and then practicing specific skills to change them. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and habits tied to addiction or mood. The Gottman Method concentrates on communication and interaction patterns in relationships and provides concrete exercises to improve trust and reduce conflict.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kelli will collaborate with each client to choose which methods to emphasize based on needs, goals, and preferences. That means they may try skills from CBT for anxiety, then layer in attachment work to repair relationship patterns if needed. The plan evolves as progress is reviewed together.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and situations. Video allows face-to-face conversations and practice of communication skills, phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in or for lower bandwidth, and live chat or messaging can support quick skill refreshes and ongoing check-ins. These options make it easier to attend sessions around work, caregiving, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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