About Kelly
Kelly Williams is an Arizona Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 13 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical steps to reduce stress and anxiety and to help people feel more steady day to day. Kelly works in a straightforward, down-to-earth way.
She listens first, then helps people set clear goals. Sessions often include small, doable actions to try between meetings so progress continues outside sessions. Her practice addresses a broad range of concerns including grief, depression, low self-esteem, coping with life changes, and sleep difficulties.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing workplace strain, parenting stress, fertility challenges, and issues tied to identity such as LGBT concerns and multicultural stressors. Kelly uses approaches that include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral tools, and mindfulness skills. She matches methods to what each person needs, pulling from solution-focused strategies and skills from dialectical behavior methods when useful.
People who work with Kelly can expect clear explanations and step-by-step planning. She helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns, builds coping skills, and supports practical problem solving. Her style is collaborative and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on making small changes that add up over time.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Kelly combines client-centered methods with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people manage symptoms and make concrete changes. Client-centered work focuses on listening, understanding each person's priorities, and shaping sessions around what matters most to the individual. Cognitive behavioral work looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical strategies to change them.She also draws from dialectical behavior therapy skills when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed. DBT-informed skills teach ways to notice strong emotions, reduce reactivity, and try new coping strategies in tough moments. Together these approaches give tools for both short-term problem solving and longer-term skill building.
The therapist will collaborate with each person to find the best mix of approaches based on needs and goals. Choosing methods is a joint process that can be adjusted over time as progress and preferences become clearer.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes scheduling more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversations and face-to-face interaction, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat can fit quick check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These options let people fit therapy into busy days and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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