About Kelly
Kelly Mitchell is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) with 13 years of experience. She practices in Kentucky and focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She also works with concerns like addiction, depression, sleeping and eating problems, and issues tied to relationships and life transitions.
Kelly takes a practical, strengths-based stance in sessions. She helps people learn how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. She uses goal-focused tools so clients can make steady changes that feel manageable.
Background and approach
Her background includes work as a counselor, educator, and business owner, which shapes a down-to-earth style. Sessions emphasize clear strategies and real-life practice rather than abstract talk. People leave with steps they can use between meetings.
Kelly blends cognitive behavioral ideas with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and solution-focused work. That means sessions often combine learning new ways to notice thoughts, trying specific skills, and setting short-term goals. The pace adjusts to what each person needs.
She is comfortable addressing complicated or overlapping problems such as co-morbidity, caregiver stress, codependency, and substance issues. The aim is steady progress toward better daily functioning and more satisfying routines. Parents reading on a phone will find simple language and concrete tools in her work.
Kelly aims to help people build habits that support lasting change and improved quality of life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice their thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then act toward meaningful values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and motivation struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical exercises, which often reduces worry and improves sleep and mood. Solution-Focused Therapy centers on small, achievable goals and builds on what already works in daily life to create quick momentum.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kelly will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. Sessions may mix ACT, CBT, and solution-focused techniques until a rhythm forms that feels useful and realistic.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for in-depth conversations and visual cues, while phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick check-ins, short coaching-style guidance, or when someone prefers writing over talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, caregiving routines, or other busy days.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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