About Kelly
Kelly Shope is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 28 years of clinical experience in New Jersey. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, parenting concerns, relationship issues, and coping with life changes. Kelly uses straightforward methods to help people manage symptoms and make concrete changes.
Her work blends cognitive-behavioral ideas with a client-centered, solution-oriented attitude. Sessions emphasize clear goals, practical strategies, and building skills that people can use between meetings.
Background and approach
She values a respectful, empathic relationship as the base for planning treatment. Kelly's background includes work in community mental health, residential programs, and schools. Over nearly three decades she has worked with children, adolescents, and adults across those settings.
That range has given her experience with mood disorders, social anxiety and phobia, isolation and loneliness, and issues around self-love. In sessions she helps people break problems into manageable steps. She offers tools for anxiety, routines for mood regulation, and communication strategies for strained relationships.
Parents can expect practical guidance for common parenting stressors. Kelly encourages people to see therapy as part of self-care. She aims to create a calm, straightforward space where clients can move toward workable change.
If someone is ready to start, she guides them through a clear plan and next steps.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Kelly uses evidence-based techniques that focus on clear skills and practical change. Cognitive-behavioral strategies help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and behaving. These methods are often used for anxiety, social phobia, and mood concerns by teaching step-by-step coping skills and gradual exposure to feared situations.She also emphasizes a client-centered, solution-oriented stance. That means sessions are guided by the person's goals and strengths, with collaborative planning and short-term strategies to address immediate problems. This approach helps keep work focused and measurable so clients can see progress between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to choose or combine techniques that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. This collaborative process includes regular check-ins about what is working and adjustments as needed.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good choice when a shorter check-in or lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share updates or brief reflections between sessions and fit support into a busy day. These options make it easier to match care to real life and scheduling needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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