About Kelly
Kelly Clyde is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people managing stress and anxiety. She works with adults dealing with relationship concerns, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions. Kelly emphasizes practical steps that can be used between sessions to reduce overwhelm and build confidence.
She has practiced in New York for five years and draws on straightforward therapy methods to address day-to-day struggles. Sessions focus on identifying unhelpful thought patterns, building coping skills, and improving communication.
Background and approach
Kelly uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to make thinking and reactions easier to handle. Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth. She listens, then helps set clear, achievable goals so progress feels real.
Conversations are plainspoken and geared toward what will work for an individual's life and schedule. Kelly also incorporates skills from dialectical behavior therapy and motivational interviewing when a different angle is helpful. Those techniques support emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and finding inner motivation to change habits.
She encourages small experiments to test new ways of coping. People meet Kelly for help with sleep problems, addictive behaviors, parenting strain, grief, workplace stress, and intimacy or fertility concerns. She is comfortable addressing attachment and communication issues, caregiver stress, and feelings of guilt or shame.
Her focus is on steady, usable changes that fit into a busy life.
How Kelly uses focused approaches online
Kelly commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness therapy in online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and teaches concrete strategies to change patterns that increase anxiety or depression. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep or stress management.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills when stronger emotion regulation or distress tolerance is needed. Those skills provide step-by-step ways to ride out intense feelings and reduce impulsive reactions. Choosing an approach is collaborative - Kelly will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences.
Offering therapy online makes sessions easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions can be a quicker check-in or used when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging support short check-ins, skill coaching between sessions, or people who prefer written communication. Together these options aim to make steady progress more convenient and flexible.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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