About Kelly
Kelly Owens is a licensed mental health counselor with nine years of experience. She uses straightforward methods to help people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship concerns. Kelly practices from New York and offers sessions in English.
Her approach blends client-centered care with evidence-based tools. She listens first, then works with each person to set clear goals. Kelly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and change behavior.
How Kelly works
She also draws on EMDR for processing traumatic memories when appropriate. Kelly has spent years helping people through major life shifts. She supports those dealing with parenting strain, career uncertainty, and complicated family dynamics.
Additional focus areas include abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, body image, caregiver stress, codependency, and infidelity. She also addresses anger, low self-esteem, isolation, and commitment worries. Sessions are practical and goal-focused.
Conversations often include skill-building, problem solving, and checking progress between meetings. Motivational Interviewing is used to boost readiness for change, and psychodynamic ideas help uncover patterns from the past that affect current life. People work with Kelly by choosing the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire.
Sessions are scheduled based on her availability and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. Her work is aimed at helping people make steady, manageable changes.
Kelly lists 7 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches suited to online work
Kelly offers approaches that adapt well to remote sessions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship; it helps people clarify goals and feel heard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior and teaches practical tools for managing anxiety, depression, and stress.Kelly may also use Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, when trauma processing is needed; this approach works on reducing the emotional charge of painful memories. She will discuss which methods might help and collaborate on a plan that fits each person's needs and comfort level. Finding the right approach is part of the process and she adjusts methods based on goals, progress, and personal preference.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or visual presence is an issue, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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