About Chelsea
Chelsea Edwards is a licensed marriage and family therapist with eight years of clinical experience. She practices as an LMFT licensed in Georgia and Connecticut and focuses on helping people find clearer ways forward during stressful times. Chelsea brings warmth and steady encouragement to sessions and aims to help people make practical changes that feel manageable.
Chelsea chose this path after studying psychology and completing a master’s in marriage and family therapy.
How Chelsea works
Her training emphasized how background and relationships shape us, so she pays attention to the systems around each person. Early work in group homes and in-home settings gave her hands-on experience with crisis situations and complex family dynamics. She has worked with adolescents and adults who faced anxiety, depression, trauma, substance-related concerns, and severe mental health challenges.
Chelsea spent several years delivering in-home therapy and supporting youth who experienced abuse or neglect, and she has seen how steady support can shift daily life. Sessions are described as warm, interactive, and practical. Chelsea blends tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, mindfulness practices, narrative work, and solution-focused techniques.
She adapts methods to match each person’s needs and goals rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. Chelsea emphasizes patience, empathy, and respect. She avoids stigmatizing labels and focuses on concrete steps people can try between sessions.
She also offers coaching-style support for life transitions and career or relationship decisions.
Chelsea lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Chelsea works with
The areas below are the ones Chelsea selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns by teaching practical skills you can use between sessions.Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, includes skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication. It is often used for intense emotions, relationship strain, and when people need steady tools to manage strong reactions.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple awareness and grounding practices to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment focus. It pairs well with CBT and DBT when people want tools to notice thoughts and sensations without getting swept away.
Chelsea treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs. Together you can adjust techniques over time to see what works best for you.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and fuller interaction, while phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, journaling between sessions, or ongoing coaching-style support. These options make therapy more flexible for busy schedules and for fitting sessions into work, family, or daily life.
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