About Kelly
Kelly Friedland is a licensed clinical social worker in Michigan with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by offering steady support and practical guidance. Her work often centers on stress and anxiety, and she also helps with grief, eating concerns, low self-esteem, and depression.
Clients can expect straightforward conversations where feelings and thoughts are named and explored. She aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space so people can speak honestly about what’s hard for them.
Background and approach
The therapist invites small, manageable steps toward change rather than pushing big, rapid shifts. In sessions she listens for the habits and patterns that keep someone struggling. Then she helps build clearer routines, coping ideas, and ways of thinking that reduce daily strain.
She also addresses issues like body image, abandonment fears, and feelings of isolation as part of that work. Kelly brings practical problem-solving to topics such as communication difficulties, life purpose, and self-love. She supports people coping with trauma-related symptoms and women’s issues by helping them regain a sense of control and direction.
Her approach balances empathy with concrete suggestions. Overall, the emphasis is on steady progress and on building tools you can use outside sessions. She works at a pace set by each person, offering encouragement and feedback as goals evolve.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Kelly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change and emotional relief. One approach is problem-focused work that helps identify unhelpful patterns and builds new habits for managing stress and anxiety. This method is useful for everyday worries, low mood, and routines that feel overwhelming.Another common approach centers on grief and loss support, offering space to process difficult emotions while developing coping skills for painful days. This work often includes pacing steps and tools to manage grief reactions alongside daily responsibilities.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss your needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit you best. Sessions may be adjusted over time based on what helps and what doesn’t, so the plan evolves collaboratively.
Online therapy lets people connect in ways that fit their schedule and life. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, brief support between sessions, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to build therapy into a busy week.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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