About Kelly
Kelly Sheets is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Tennessee. She brings eight years of clinical experience to her practice and focuses on anxiety alongside a range of related concerns. Her manner is conversational and straightforward, so people often find sessions feel like a calm, honest conversation rather than a lecture.
Kelly works with people who face addiction, trauma, depression, anger, and low self-esteem. She also helps with relationship strain, eating issues, stress, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in residential alcohol and drug programs where co-occurring disorders were common. Her approach has an existential foundation. She uses that framework to help people name what matters to them and make choices that match their values.
Kelly also draws on cognitive behavioral approaches and acceptance-based strategies to tackle unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She has a clinical psychology bachelor’s degree and a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from East Tennessee State University. Kelly has worked with combat-related PTSD and substance use concerns and maintains involvement in research at a university setting.
In sessions she listens first, then suggests practical steps to try. Counseling can include short skills practice, talking through difficult memories, or building routines that reduce anxiety and cravings. The goal is clearer choices and more manageable days.
To begin, people complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule sessions that fit their life. Kelly offers several online formats to make therapy easier to fit into a busy schedule.
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that align with their values; it can be useful for anxiety, avoidance, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going and practicing new skills to change them, which often helps with anxiety, depression, and compulsive behaviors. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s experience, using active listening and empathy so clients can explore goals and find their own solutions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kelly will listen to a person’s needs, goals, and preferences and then propose ways to combine these approaches. The process is collaborative - the therapist and client check what helps and adjust the plan together.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversations and skills practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins or people who prefer text. These options add flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels, making it easier to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee, Michigan
- Languages
- English
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