About Kelly
Kelly Brignoni is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in California with 15 years of clinical experience. She helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship strain in a calm, straightforward way. Her work focuses on practical steps that clients can use between sessions.
Kelly draws on several well-known approaches to find what fits each person. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people live toward their values despite difficult feelings.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools are offered for emotion regulation and coping skills. Narrative Therapy is used to reframe stories people tell about themselves. Her background includes long-term work with trauma, self-esteem struggles, and life transitions.
She also addresses related issues such as attachment and communication problems, separation and divorce, and substance use concerns. Her experience covers complex, overlapping difficulties rather than single problems in isolation. Sessions are offered in English and conducted from California.
Kelly works with adults to clarify goals, practice skills, and track progress over time. She aims to make therapy practical and doable for people juggling busy lives. In sessions clients can expect clear, compassionate guidance and concrete strategies to try between meetings.
Kelly encourages steady steps toward more manageable emotions and healthier interactions. She collaborates with each person to shape a plan that matches their needs and pace.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take actions that align with their values. It can be useful for chronic worry, anxiety, and low mood when the goal is more meaningful living rather than symptom elimination.Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides concrete tools for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication. These skills are often helpful for people facing intense emotions, relationship conflicts, or patterns of avoidance and reactivity.
Narrative Therapy looks at the stories people tell about themselves and their problems, and it invites new perspectives that open different possibilities. This approach can support shifts in identity after trauma, loss, or major life changes.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Kelly collaborates with each person to test methods, adjust techniques, and decide what fits the client’s goals and daily life. The process is practical and paced to the individual's needs.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates, coping reminders, and flexible touchpoints between scheduled meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent amid busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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