About Kelly
Kelly Burkett is a licensed mental health counselor in New York with 16 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, career pressure, relationship strain, and attention difficulties. Kelly approaches work with a straightforward, supportive style that aims to make starting therapy feel manageable.
She believes each person knows their own story and brings strengths to change. In sessions she listens closely, helps clarify problems, and offers practical tools to try between meetings.
Background and approach
This often means breaking bigger worries into small, doable steps. Kelly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. She works with clients to notice unhelpful thinking and test new ways of responding to tough situations.
The goal is to create patterns that reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. Sessions can include skill-building, short experiments to try in real life, and clear plans for handling stressors. She encourages simple routines that support mood and focus, such as organizing tasks and setting realistic goals.
Progress is tracked in plain terms so people can see what’s changing. Her approach is collaborative and practical. Kelly helps people set achievable goals based on what matters to them.
She aims to make therapy useful and understandable for anyone ready to take the next step.
Practical approaches for online work
Kelly primarily uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a hands-on method that links thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT helps people spot unhelpful thinking, practice different responses, and reduce anxiety or low mood through small experiments and skill building.In online sessions she applies the same step-by-step process as in person, helping clients set clear goals and try strategies between meetings. The therapist and client decide together which techniques fit best for the problem at hand and the client's daily routine. This collaborative approach means methods are adjusted as progress is seen.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face discussion and exercises that use visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging offer flexibility for brief updates, ongoing skill coaching, or when written reflection helps process thoughts.
These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, family tasks, or school, and they let people try methods at their own pace while keeping treatment consistent and goal oriented.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Career difficulties
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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