About Kelly
Kelly James-Fraser is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Georgia with ten years of clinical experience. She draws on a long career in diverse settings to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and other difficult life problems. Her work is straightforward and focused on practical steps that make daily life feel more manageable.
Before independent practice, she provided care in inpatient settings for people with severe and chronic mental health issues.
Background and approach
She has experience with crisis work, forensic inpatient care, and treatment within correctional systems. That background informs how she plans safer, realistic steps for someone who feels overwhelmed. Her approach centers on the person in front of her.
She uses a mix of client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, dialectical behavior strategies, emotionally focused methods, and mindfulness practices. Sessions aim to be collaborative and tailored to each person’s needs rather than a one-size-fits-all program. Clients can expect practical tools for coping with anxiety, depression, grief, relationship challenges, addiction, and life transitions.
She also addresses issues like attachment, body image, chronic illness, and caregiver stress when they come up in therapy. The focus is on short-term gains and longer-term skills. Kelly works with adults across a range of concerns and frames treatment around clear goals.
She encourages people to bring what matters most to them and to set achievable steps toward feeling better. The pace and techniques shift to fit each person’s comfort and goals.
How Kelly’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person’s experience and shaping work around their goals, which helps when someone needs a supportive, nonjudgmental place to talk about anxiety or depression. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and coping with life changes. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers practical skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships, which can help when stress or intense emotions interfere with daily life.Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to what matters most and together decide which approaches fit the client’s goals and preferences. That collaboration guides session pace, homework, and which skills to prioritize.
Online sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to accommodate different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skill practice and deeper work. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option or fit a short break during the day. Live chat and text-based messaging offer brief check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to use approaches like CBT and DBT in whatever format works best.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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