About Kellye
Kellye Laughery is a licensed marriage and family therapist with twenty years of experience in California. She focuses on stress and anxiety, relationship and family challenges, life transitions, career concerns, and grief. Kellye offers a calm, supportive presence and aims to help people find workable steps forward.
She uses practical, conversational approaches in sessions. Kellye listens to what each person brings and then helps them notice patterns that keep problems stuck.
Background and approach
She works on skills for coping with anxiety, improving communication, and making decisions in times of change. Her work often draws on attachment ideas to understand how early relationships shape present behavior. She also uses client-centered techniques to follow the client’s agenda and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address thoughts that fuel anxiety.
These methods are adapted to each person’s goals rather than applied the same way for everyone. Common topics Kellye supports include parenting stress, intimacy-related concerns, career transitions, blended family issues, and recovery after trauma or disaster. She also helps people facing emptiness, midlife questions, or challenges tied to veteran and armed forces experiences.
Sessions tend to be straightforward and goal-oriented. Kellye encourages small experiments between meetings to test new ways of handling stress and relationship patterns. She emphasizes clear communication skills and practical coping tools.
To begin, clients choose their preferred session format and schedule a time that fits. Kellye aims to make the first few sessions focused on immediate relief and a clear plan for next steps.
Using attachment and cognitive approaches in online therapy
Kellye often works from attachment-based ideas to help people understand how early relationship patterns affect present stress and intimacy. That approach looks at how you connect, respond to conflict, and seek reassurance, and it can help with relationship strain and parenting concerns.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers the session on what the client wants to talk about and follows their pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and practice different behaviors to reduce anxiety and lift mood. Together these approaches aim to combine understanding with concrete skills.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and tailor methods to your goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Sessions are collaborative and may shift over time as needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions that benefit from face-to-face contact. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for check-ins. Live chat and messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, homework, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different ways of connecting with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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