About Abigail
Abigail Kelsey Judge is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 15 years of experience working in Missouri. She holds LPC and LCPC credentials and focuses on helping people navigate difficult moments and ongoing struggles. Abigail aims to build trust quickly by being direct, present, and purposeful in sessions.
She offers practical help for concerns such as anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, mood disorders, bipolar disorder, and ADHD. She also supports people facing grief, parenting strain, career shifts, anger, and stress.
How Abigail works
Abigail uses everyday language so conversations are clear and focused on what matters now. Her style is collaborative and problem-solving oriented. Sessions may include individual work and strategies to manage emotions and behavior.
Abigail emphasizes using the client's time efficiently and shaping sessions around each person's goals. She has experience leading individual, group, and family formats in a range of settings. That background informs how she adapts approaches for short-term crises or longer-term change.
People who prefer straightforward guidance and practical tools will likely feel comfortable working with her. Abigail is flexible with scheduling and offers earlier mornings, later evenings, and weekend appointments when needed. She supports both local and international clients in English and aims to match her approach to each person's situation.
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What Abigail works with
The areas below are the ones Abigail selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Approaches and online options for real-life problems
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience first. That approach helps people feel heard and guides the pace of work toward their goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression, and mood issues. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships through specific skills practice, which can be useful for intense emotions and self-harm concerns.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to pick methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions can mix techniques and be adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and messaging offer shorter check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, parenting, or travel schedules while keeping treatment focused on practical change.
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