About Kelly
Kelly Drake is a Licensed Master Social Worker with 25 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, sleep problems, relationship strain, parenting worries, and other life changes. Her tone is direct but compassionate, and she aims to build a steady working relationship with each person she supports.
Kelly draws on several therapeutic approaches to match what each person needs. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns.
Background and approach
She brings client-centered work to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to address patterns of thinking and to improve sleep and coping skills. Her background includes many years doing suicide assessment and trauma work with children and later with active duty service members.
That history shaped a practical focus on skills that help reduce symptoms and restore day-to-day functioning. She has worked in community mental health and in school settings across the Detroit, Michigan area. Sessions with Kelly are straightforward and paced to the person’s comfort.
She describes her style as calm, perceptive, and honest - offering empathy while being clear about what helps change happen. She values working collaboratively and treating people with dignity. People often come for help with parenting concerns, grief, addiction, ADHD, attachment or family-of-origin issues, and intimacy or commitment struggles.
Kelly aims to combine short-term practical work with attention to deeper patterns that affect relationships and mood.
How Kelly blends approaches for online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Kelly uses this approach to help people see familiar relationship reactions and learn new ways to connect and feel safer in relationships. Client-Centered Therapy gives the person space to lead the conversation while the therapist offers empathy and respect; it is useful when someone needs acceptance and a steady presence rather than quick fixes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with practical exercises, and it is often used for anxiety, sleep problems, and coping skills.Finding the right mix is a collaborative process. Kelly will listen to your goals and problems, then try approaches that fit your needs. She checks in regularly to see what’s working and adjusts the plan so sessions stay relevant and useful for you.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for hands-on skill practice. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send updates or ask quick questions between sessions and can fit into busy schedules. These options make it easier to maintain consistency and weave therapy into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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