About Kelly
Kelly Gulat is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with 11 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by listening closely and working with them to set practical goals. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at making the first steps into therapy feel manageable.
Kelly helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, and identity concerns. She also offers support for relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting strains, sleep problems, career questions, and coping with life changes.
How Kelly works
Additional focus areas include ADHD, compassion fatigue, chronic illness and pain, and blended family or communication problems. Her approach centers on the person in front of her. Kelly draws on client-centered work to follow each person's pace.
She blends cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking and dialectical skills to manage strong emotions when needed. Sessions are conversational and practical. Clients can expect concrete tools to try between meetings, plus space to talk about values, meaning, and identity.
Kelly pays attention to how life stressors and past experiences affect day-to-day choices. She aims to create a nonjudgmental setting where difficult topics can be named and worked through. Kelly encourages small, steady changes and helps people track progress toward goals.
The focus is on what will make daily life feel more manageable and aligned with personal values.
Kelly lists 9 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following each person's pace. The therapist creates space for someone to describe what matters and helps them set goals based on their values and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and offers practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches skills to tolerate strong emotions, improve relationships, and manage stress in the moment.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kelly will talk with clients about their goals and preferences and recommend techniques that fit the situation. That planning is collaborative so adjustments can be made as progress unfolds.
Online sessions can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people see facial cues and hold longer sessions. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit quick updates, brief coaching, or ongoing check-ins between meetings. These options make therapy more flexible for different schedules, locations, and day-to-day needs.
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A practical next step
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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