About Kelly
Kelly Owens is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She brings nine years of experience in the mental health field and focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. Clients can expect straightforward, compassionate care aimed at clear goals.
Kelly uses a mix of approaches that fit the person in front of her. She draws on client-centered methods to listen and reflect, cognitive behavioral tools to shift troubling thoughts and behaviors, and EMDR for processing traumatic memories when appropriate.
Background and approach
Sessions are tailored to what each person needs right now. Her background includes work across diverse mental health settings, with substantial experience in remote therapy. That experience shapes how she structures sessions, offers homework, and balances short-term skills with deeper work.
The emphasis is on practical progress people can use between meetings. Kelly often helps people manage grief, parenting strain, career stress, and identity questions, including LGBT issues. She also addresses more specific struggles such as codependency, communication problems, abandonment concerns, and body image.
Her approach combines listening with tools that make daily life easier. People interested in starting are guided through a simple matching and scheduling process. Kelly frames therapy as a collaborative project and works with each person to set realistic steps toward their goals.
How Kelly's Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Client-centered therapy means sessions start with listening and reflection to understand what matters most to the person. This approach helps build trust and clarity about goals, whether the issue is anxiety, relationship problems, or grief.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and practicing small, concrete changes. It works well for stress, anxiety, low mood, and coping with life transitions because it offers clear tools to use between sessions.
EMDR is a method used to work with distressing memories and the emotions linked to them. When appropriate, it can be part of the plan to reduce the emotional intensity of past events and support recovery from trauma.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, try methods that seem promising, and adjust the plan as progress is made. This shared decision-making helps match strategies to what a person needs in real life.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people meet. Video calls let conversations feel closest to in-person meetings. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, jotting progress notes, or shorter coaching-style exchanges. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy routine and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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