About Michele
Dr. Michele Kelly is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, or major life changes. She works with teens and adults to find clearer ways forward.
Her tone is practical and steady, focused on small steps that make daily life feel more manageable. Dr. Kelly uses plain, hands-on methods in sessions.
She starts with an assessment to understand what is happening now.
Background and approach
From there she chooses strategies that fit each person's needs, goals, and rhythm of life. Sessions focus on building coping skills, problem solving, and strengthening support where it matters. Her approach mixes several evidence-informed methods.
She commonly draws from cognitive behavioral ideas to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Mindfulness and acceptance-based tools help with stress and emotional ups and downs. Skills from dialectical behavior therapy add practical ways to manage intense emotions and improve communication.
With 15 years of experience as an LCSW, she brings years of practice in community and clinical settings in Louisiana. That background informs straightforward, real-world tools rather than abstract theory. The goal is clearer thinking, better daily routines, and steadier moods.
Sessions can address a wide range of concerns including depression, bipolar symptoms, trauma and abuse, ADHD, relationship and family issues, caregiving strain, and eating or career worries. She also supports people facing adoption and foster care questions, immigration-related stress, and feelings of isolation. Dr.
Kelly offers flexible scheduling and works collaboratively to set goals that fit your life. To begin, clients choose a start option, complete a short questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
How Dr. Kelly Uses Therapy Approaches Online
Dr. Kelly commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change thoughts and behaviors that increase anxiety or depression. CBT sessions focus on small, practical exercises and clear behavioral steps that clients can try between meetings.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people accept difficult feelings while clarifying personal values and taking action that matters. ACT is useful for stress, anxiety, and life transitions when someone wants to move forward despite uncomfortable emotions.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. During the first sessions she will assess your situation and discuss which methods feel like the best fit. She tailors techniques to your goals, testing what works and adjusting as needed so therapy matches your needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how you meet. Video calls allow a face-to-face feel for skill teaching and deeper conversation. Phone sessions are an option when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in fits the day. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter updates, coaching-style exchanges, or ongoing reminders between sessions. These options make it easier to stick with therapy while juggling work, school, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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