About Kellie
Kellie Gainey is a New York licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and identity-related worries. She has seven years of clinical experience supporting people through trauma, grief, parenting struggles, addiction, and life changes. Kellie takes a compassionate, open approach to sessions and aims to make talking about hard things easier.
Her sessions focus on practical skills that can be used right away.
How Kellie works
Kellie teaches coping techniques for overwhelming emotions and offers tools to shift unhelpful thinking patterns. She also pays attention to how identity and relationships shape a person's experience. Kellie combines several evidence-informed methods.
She draws from cognitive behavioral therapy to notice and change thinking habits, dialectical behavior therapy to strengthen emotion regulation and distress tolerance, and acceptance and commitment therapy to clarify values and build meaningful action. Clients can expect a warm, collaborative style that centers their goals. Kellie aims to adapt exercises and homework to fit each person's life and pace.
She describes sessions in plain terms and checks in about what feels useful. Sessions are offered in English and take place online using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Kellie works from positions that affirm kink, non-monogamy, and body diversity when those topics are relevant.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule through the Start Therapy process.
Kellie lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Kellie works with
The areas below are the ones Kellie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How Kellie Tailors Therapy Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when feelings are hard. It is often used for anxiety, low mood, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce distress and improve coping. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions and handling conflict more calmly.Choosing the right approach is part of the work and is done together. The therapist and client talk about goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what feels helpful. Kellie aims to match methods to each person’s needs rather than using one fixed style.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction when they want it. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit brief conversations into a busy day or to share thoughts between calls. These options help people access consistent care without long commutes and allow sessions to fit around work and family demands.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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