About Kelly
Kelly Ready is an AASW social worker with 15 years of practice who helps people facing stress, anxiety and major life changes. She works with individuals dealing with trauma, grief, parenting challenges and relationship strain. Kelly aims to create a calm space where people can talk about what feels overwhelming and find clearer ways forward.
Kelly draws on practical, evidence-informed approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
Background and approach
She also uses attachment-based and client-centred ideas to focus on how relationships and personal values shape wellbeing. Sessions concentrate on real-life skills and steps that can be used between meetings. Her experience includes supporting people through loss, birth-related stress, and complex emotional responses after abuse.
Kelly also works with anxiety, depression, addictions, self-esteem and sleep problems. She pays attention to how caring roles and chronic health issues affect day-to-day functioning. Kelly adapts conversation and strategies to each person's situation and priorities.
She understands the pace needed when someone is juggling parenting and work responsibilities. The aim is to build practical routines and coping tools that fit into a busy life. People can expect straightforward language, thoughtful listening and collaborative goal-setting.
Kelly encourages small, achievable changes and checks progress as therapy continues. She supports clients to strengthen coping skills and move towards a more manageable everyday life.
Approaches that suit online therapy
Kelly often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. ACT focuses on accepting difficult thoughts while committing to actions that reflect personal priorities. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is another regular approach and helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try practical behaviour changes that reduce anxiety and depression. Attachment-Based Therapy is used to look at how early and current relationship patterns affect feelings and responses, which can help with intimacy and trust issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about symptoms, goals and what feels comfortable, then pick or blend approaches that match those needs. This is a collaborative process and may change over time as progress is reviewed.
Online sessions via video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues, while phone calls need less bandwidth and can be a good short-check-in option. Live chat and messaging suit quick reflections, ongoing check-ins or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These formats add flexibility for people balancing parenting, work and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- 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
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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