About Kelley
Kelley Tubbs is a licensed clinical social worker with 17 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, and major life changes. He uses straight talk and practical skills to help people get unstuck and build everyday coping strategies. Kelley focuses on what a person can do now to feel better and move forward.
He draws on client-centered methods to listen and tailor sessions to each person’s goals. Kelley also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and shift patterns that keep problems going.
How Kelley works
Mindfulness practices are used when helpful to reduce reactivity and bring attention back to the present. Over the years he has worked in both personal and government settings, offering individual and group therapy plus community outreach and training. That background informs his work with people affected by bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress, depression, and trauma-related concerns.
He also supports people dealing with grief, relationship and intimacy issues, workplace stress, and questions about life purpose. Kelley is direct but empathic and focuses on building skills people can use between sessions. He helps clients set clear, manageable goals and tracks progress in ways that feel real and useful.
The goal is practical change that fits a person’s life. He provides sessions in English from Oklahoma. Kelley explains options clearly and helps people choose approaches that match their needs, pace, and preferences.
Kelley lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Kelley works with
The areas below are the ones Kelley selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oklahoma |
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Online support options
Approach-driven online therapy for real-life problems
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s concerns and goals. The therapist follows the person’s lead and helps shape sessions around what matters most, which suits stress, relationship concerns, and questions about life purpose.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and then practice different responses. This approach often helps with anxiety, depression, anger, and patterns that affect work or relationships.
Kelley will collaborate with clients to choose the best methods based on needs and preferences. Figuring out which approach fits is part of the work together, and he adjusts plans as progress is tracked and goals change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls can approximate an in-person conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth, chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or busy family life while keeping the focus on useful skills and steady progress.
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