About Kelly
Kelly Peters is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 35 years of experience helping adults navigate anxiety, loss, addiction, relationship stress, and major life changes. She offers a calm, respectful approach that focuses on what matters to each person. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth, aiming to help people find realistic ways to cope and move forward.
Kelly draws on a mix of well-known therapy approaches to shape practical sessions.
Background and approach
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify values and take meaningful action despite worries or fear. Sessions also reflect client-centered principles, so the conversation stays rooted in the person’s experience.
When emotions run high, techniques from Dialectical Behavior Therapy can bring skills for managing distress and improving connection. Emotionally-Focused Therapy is used when relationship patterns and attachment themes need attention. Across concerns such as anxiety, grief, addiction, and family-of-origin issues, Kelly aims to tailor work to each person’s goals.
She helps people build coping tools, change patterns that cause pain, and strengthen relationships where possible. Kelly practices in Illinois and holds an IL LCPC credential. She offers sessions in English and provides several formats for online and remote care.
To begin, clients use a matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Kelly commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people identify their core values and commit to small, meaningful actions even when worry or fear is present. ACT is often useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes because it shifts the focus from trying to eliminate uncomfortable thoughts to living in ways that matter.She also relies on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to spot and test unhelpful thought patterns and to practice new behaviors that reduce distress. CBT is practical and action-oriented, which many people find helpful for anxiety, depression, and coping with change. Client-centered principles shape the tone of sessions so that the conversation stays focused on the client’s experience and choices.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they will pick methods and plan steps that match those needs and adjust them over time.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video can approximate an in-person meeting, phone can be a simpler check-in with less bandwidth, and text or chat can work for brief updates or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy going around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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