About Kelly
Kelly Decker is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Virginia with 10 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship struggles. Her tone is warm and down-to-earth and she aims to make the first steps into therapy easier to manage.
Kelly uses straightforward talk, listening, and gentle challenge to help people notice patterns that keep them stuck. She draws on cognitive-behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and relational ideas to look at how connection and attachment influence feelings.
Background and approach
She also uses humanistic and psychodynamic perspectives to help clients understand deeper emotional patterns. Several areas of focus include panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, body image, gender dysphoria, and issues common in the LGBT community. She also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, codependency, isolation, and life transitions such as midlife concerns and shifts in purpose.
Although sessions are virtual, Kelly can incorporate elements of nature-based or animal-assisted approaches if a client is interested. She builds a plan with each person, matching techniques to the client’s goals and comfort level. Expect a collaborative process with practical tools and space to talk through painful experiences.
Her practice offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, and she communicates in English. To start, a short questionnaire helps match needs and a plan is scheduled from there.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online work
Kelly uses cognitive-behavioral ideas to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; this approach is useful for anxiety, panic, and low mood and often includes practical homework and step-by-step skill building. She also draws on relational and psychodynamic perspectives to look at patterns in relationships and attachment that shape feelings and reactions, helping people understand why they respond a certain way and finding different options.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Kelly works together with each person to decide what methods feel most helpful based on their goals, life circumstances, and how they prefer to work. That collaborative planning can change over time as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, ongoing reflection, and day-to-day coaching between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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