About Kelli
Kelli Rue-Bachini creates a welcoming space for people who feel stuck or overwhelmed. She greets clients with straightforward care and helps them name what matters most. Conversations focus on practical steps that fit daily life.
Kelli is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, LICSW, with eight years of experience working in Alabama. She has helped people facing addictions, trauma and abuse, anger, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, and stress. She also supports folks dealing with grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, and work-related challenges.
How Kelli works
Her approach blends several methods to meet each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps spot and shift unhelpful thoughts and habits. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, emphasizes values and small committed actions.
She also uses client-centered and mindfulness techniques to slow down, notice what’s happening, and choose the next step. Sessions tend to focus on manageable goals and concrete skills. Kelli often works on coping tools, communication strategies, and ways to reduce overwhelming feelings.
She can also address first responder and veteran-related stress, compassion fatigue, and issues around guilt and forgiveness. Kelli aims for clear, collaborative work. New clients will be invited to set priorities together and try small experiments between sessions.
The tone is direct but respectful, with attention to what actually helps in day-to-day life.
Kelli lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Kelli works with
The areas below are the ones Kelli selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Alabama |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, motivation problems, and issues that involve getting unstuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and changing behavior with practical exercises; it can help with panic, mood symptoms, and stress. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the person sets the pace and the therapist follows, which supports healing from trauma, grief, and relationship strain.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Together they will try techniques, monitor what helps, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and full interaction. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit brief check-ins into a busy day and to get support between longer sessions. These options offer flexibility and make it easier to keep therapy consistent with everyday life.
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