About Kelly
Kelly Chaiken-Crooks is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She works with issues like trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, grief, substance use, and struggles with self-esteem and intimacy. Kelly also supports people dealing with ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, compassion fatigue, and life transitions.
Kelly uses a practical, collaborative style. Early sessions focus on understanding what the person wants to change.
How Kelly works
She and the client set clear goals and then try strategies that fit the person’s life. Sessions are straightforward and solution-minded, with gentle encouragement and honest feedback. Her approach draws from client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques.
That mix helps with mood problems, communication breakdowns, and patterns that keep people stuck. Trauma-informed thinking guides work with painful or overwhelming experiences. Kelly has five years of counseling experience in outpatient and community settings.
She has worked with people facing adoption and foster care issues, abandonment wounds, blended family stress, caregiver strain, codependency, commitment fears, and infidelity. Communication problems, jealousy, and isolation are also areas she addresses. People often leave sessions with clear next steps to practice between meetings.
Kelly aims to balance support with skills-building so clients can notice small changes and build on them over time.
Kelly lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Kelly works with
The areas below are the ones Kelly selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches adapt to online work
Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person’s experience and priorities. The therapist listens closely and follows what matters most to the client, which helps with confidence, self-esteem, and relationship concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaching practical skills to change them; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and anger. Mindfulness Therapy builds simple awareness skills that reduce reactivity and improve emotion regulation; it can be useful for stress, trauma symptoms, and compassion fatigue.Choosing the right approach often happens together. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. From there they’ll try methods and adjust them based on what the client finds helpful. This collaborative process aims to find strategies that fit daily life and feel manageable.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people have face-to-face time when schedules or distance make in-person visits hard. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio-only check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit brief updates or quick check-ins into a busy day. These options create flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or school while pursuing therapy.
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