About May
May Kirby is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with ten years of clinical experience. She centers therapy on a strong, collaborative relationship and helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and other life challenges. She uses practical, straightforward methods to help people change what isn't working.
Sessions focus on skills you can use between meetings, such as noticing unhelpful thoughts, building small habits, and choosing actions that match your values. Before moving into independent practice, she spent years in intensive outpatient mental health care.
Background and approach
That background shaped her ability to support people through crises and ongoing struggles. She draws on that experience when helping people cope with trauma, grief, addiction, mood issues, and burnout. Therapy with May is collaborative and paced to fit each person.
She listens for what matters most and helps set clear, achievable goals. Approaches include acceptance and commitment techniques, attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, and cognitive-behavioral strategies she adapts to the person in front of her. She also addresses practical life stresses like work strain, parenting pressures, relationship problems, sleep and eating concerns, and career changes.
Sessions aim to strengthen coping, reduce overwhelm, and increase clarity about next steps. May offers services from South Carolina and works with English-speaking clients, including those located outside the United States.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then choosing actions that align with personal values to move forward. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and when life feels overwhelming.Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape trust and connection. It helps people understand patterns in relationships and build healthier ways of relating when intimacy or communication feels difficult.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with anxiety, panic, obsessions, and mood concerns by breaking difficulties into manageable steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your concerns and goals, then suggest methods to try. Together you can adjust the plan based on what helps most, keeping the process collaborative and goal-focused.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when a written conversation fits your schedule. These options make it easier to attend sessions from different locations and to choose the format that best supports your routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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