About Kelly
Kelly Stone is a licensed clinical social worker based in North Carolina. She brings eight years of experience helping people who struggle with anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Kelly focuses on practical, readable steps that people can use between sessions.
Her style is collaborative and direct. She treats each person as the expert on their life and works alongside them to build on existing strengths. Sessions often include problem-solving, emotion work, and strategies to reduce day-to-day overwhelm.
Background and approach
Kelly draws on several approaches to match what a person needs. She uses client-centered methods to keep conversations focused on the client's priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps spot and shift unhelpful thinking.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy supports people who want clearer connection in relationships. She has worked with people facing trauma, grief, addiction, and mood concerns such as bipolar disorder. Kelly also addresses issues like codependency, attachment and abandonment wounds, body image, and sexual expression within BDSM and kink cultures.
She supports caregivers and those facing career or life-purpose questions. Her sessions blend practical tools, motivational support, and moments to reflect on deeper patterns. People interested in coaching-style work can expect goal-oriented steps, while those wanting deeper emotion work can explore patterns in relationships and attachment.
Kelly aims to make therapy understandable and useful in everyday life.
How Kelly blends approaches for online work
Kelly uses client-centered therapy to keep sessions focused on what matters most to the client. This approach emphasizes listening, reflecting, and partnering with the person to set goals and priorities. It is useful when someone wants guidance that respects their values and choices.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood. CBT provides practical exercises and small experiments to reduce anxiety and manage stress. It works well for people who want clear tools to use between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Kelly will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide whether to emphasize emotion-focused work, skills-based CBT, or a mix of methods tailored to the issue at hand.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work face-to-face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer writing between sessions or want frequent, brief support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep progress steady.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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