About Kerrie
Kerrie Pelan is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York who focuses on practical steps to reduce anxiety and stress. She emphasizes the client's own strengths and works alongside people to build confidence and better coping skills. She uses straightforward, goal-focused methods to address day-to-day problems.
Sessions often include identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, practicing present-moment awareness, and setting small, achievable goals. Kerrie aims to make therapy feel manageable and relevant to each person's life.
Background and approach
Her background includes three years of professional experience working with concerns such as depression, relationship struggles, grief, trauma, and parenting stress. She also supports people facing workplace strain, caregiver stress, and the emotional fallout of adoption or attachment issues. Kerrie mentions experience with mood disorders, bipolar concerns, and ADHD-related challenges.
Approaches include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Therapy. These methods are used to help with motivation, self-esteem, social anxiety, and problem solving. Kerrie frames the work as collaborative and practical, not theoretical.
Sessions are offered in English and arranged through online formats. The first step is a brief matching process and scheduling. Kerrie encourages anyone feeling overwhelmed by life changes, grief, or persistent worry to reach out and begin the process of small, steady change.
Practical approaches for online anxiety care
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on noticing thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence. It helps people change unhelpful thinking and build new habits for anxiety, mood, and workplace stress.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus on the present moment. It can help with stress, grief, and rumination by training calmer responses to difficult feelings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kerrie will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their goals and preferences. She checks in about what helps and adjusts approaches as needed so sessions remain practical and goal driven.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer therapy sessions and face-to-face conversation, while phone calls can fit a short break from work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging allow quick check-ins, shorter goal setting, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit treatment into a busy life and try different ways of working until one feels right.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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