About Kelly
Kelly Fischer is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in Indiana. She brings 26 years of experience to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life changes. Her manner is warm and down-to-earth, and she aims to make therapy feel practical and understandable.
Kelly has worked in many settings, including outpatient therapy, residential care, and forensic environments. That variety means she is familiar with different kinds of challenges, from addiction and mood disorders to caregiver stress and chronic illness.
Background and approach
She also supports people who have autism or cognitive delays and those coping with visual impairment concerns. Her style is interactive and respectful. She involves people in setting goals and choosing steps to reach them.
Sessions emphasize clear reasons for meeting and concrete plans for progress instead of vague talk. Kelly draws on client-centered methods to keep sessions focused on each person's experience. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and build new skills.
Mindfulness and solution-focused ideas are added when helpful to develop coping tools and short-term strategies. Over the years she has run individual and group counseling in a range of programs. That background supports practical work on parenting pressures, career stress, eating concerns, anger, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue.
Kelly aims to help people find manageable steps that fit their daily lives. To begin, she asks people to join the process and help shape goals together. The emphasis is on steady, understandable progress and on building skills people can use after therapy ends.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience and priorities. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps each person set goals that feel meaningful. This approach supports work on anxiety, grief, and self-esteem by keeping conversations about what matters most to the client.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. It is practical and skill-focused, so it fits well into short exercises, worksheets, and between-session practice during video or text-based work. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and obsessive thoughts.
Finding the right approach is part of the early work. Kelly will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. She explains options, tries different techniques, and adjusts plans based on what helps most over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller interaction is wanted, while phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer writing, want brief touchpoints between sessions, or need help working through feelings in the moment. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a routine and to practice skills in daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Intellectual disability
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Visually impaired
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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