About Kelly
Kelly Franklin is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Missouri with ten years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress or anxiety and those working on self-esteem, motivation, and confidence. She aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and respectful.
Kelly creates a relaxed space where clients can talk through thoughts and feelings without fear of judgment. Conversations are straightforward and focused on practical changes that help day-to-day life.
Background and approach
She listens for patterns that keep problems active and looks for small, realistic steps forward. Sessions often cover family and parenting concerns in ways that help an individual manage communication and boundaries. Kelly also addresses issues connected to attention and impulsivity, caregiver stress, and workplace pressures.
She helps people notice how past attachment experiences influence current relationships and reactions. When panic attacks, social anxiety, or PTSD symptoms show up, Kelly works with clients to build coping tools and reduce overwhelming reactions. Pregnant people and new parents can bring pregnancy and childbirth related stress into sessions too.
The approach is practical and paced to what each person can handle. People meet by phone, video call, live chat, or text messaging. To get started, a short matching questionnaire is completed and sessions are scheduled based on availability.
Fees vary with location and sessions are part of a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Kelly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and problem solving. One common approach emphasizes building coping strategies for anxiety and panic - learning breathing and grounding skills, and practicing what to do when symptoms arise. This helps reduce the intensity of panic attacks and makes social situations easier to handle.Another approach focuses on improving communication and managing family or parenting stress by identifying patterns and trying new behaviors. Sessions look at how attachment patterns show up in relationships and suggest small changes to improve interactions and reduce conflict.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client review goals, try different strategies, and adapt the plan based on what feels useful. Decisions about techniques are collaborative and based on the client's needs and preferences.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation when desired, phone sessions fit a shorter check-in or lower bandwidth needs, live chat and messaging support ongoing check-ins and brief coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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