About Kelly
Kelly Joyce is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) in Ohio with nine years of experience in mental health care. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, eating concerns, addiction, and relationship struggles. Kelly aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for people feeling overwhelmed by life changes or past trauma.
Her approach centers on the client’s experience. She uses client-centered methods and draws on strengths to help people set realistic goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often combine practical skills from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to teach coping tools and emotional regulation. Kelly has worked in many settings, including inpatient psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment programs, partial hospitalization, and outpatient care. That range gives her experience with both crisis care and longer-term support.
She explains options clearly and helps people choose what feels right for them. In sessions, Kelly focuses on concrete steps people can take between meetings. She helps with communication problems, codependency, body image, and attachment-related concerns, among other issues.
Therapy typically involves skill practice, goal setting, and checking what’s working. Outside of work she spends time with family, watches true crime documentaries, and enjoys travel and her cats. Her background in psychology and social work informs a practical, down-to-earth style that aims to make therapy feel manageable for busy lives.
Online approaches that teach skills and build insight
Kelly often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice unhelpful patterns and choose values-based actions. ACT focuses on building psychological flexibility so clients can move toward what matters to them despite difficult thoughts or feelings.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and change thinking patterns that feed anxiety or low mood. CBT emphasizes practical exercises and homework to test new ways of thinking and behaving.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kelly will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level. That ongoing conversation helps tailor sessions so they stay relevant and useful.
Online therapy lets people connect in different ways depending on needs. Video calls are useful for face-to-face interaction and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day and to send quick reflections between sessions.
These options provide flexibility and access for people juggling work, caregiving, or travel while still focusing on skill building and progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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