About Kelly
Kelly Peters is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 35 years of experience. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, relationship strain, and life changes. Her manner is warm and respectful, and she works alongside clients to set realistic goals and make steady progress.
Kelly focuses on practical steps that fit real life. Sessions are collaborative and direct. She listens for what matters most and then offers approaches that match each person’s needs.
How Kelly works
Her work includes concerns such as codependency, communication problems, intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue. Her background spans individual counseling, couples support, group work, and employee assistance programs. She has experience with crisis intervention and critical incident debriefing.
Over the years she has also supported people dealing with chronic illness, caregiving stress, cancer, and aging-related questions. Kelly uses a blend of methods rather than one fixed model. She draws from cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance and commitment strategies, emotionally focused work, dialectical skills, and a client-centered stance.
That mix lets her tailor sessions to the problem at hand and the person in front of her. People come to Kelly to sort through painful losses, break patterns that no longer work, and find clearer ways to relate to others. She helps clients develop new skills for stress, anger, and substance concerns while attending to emotions and values.
Kelly works from Illinois and conducts sessions in English. To begin, she asks a few questions to understand goals and then builds a plan together. The pace and focus are adjusted as progress is made, keeping tasks manageable and relevant.
Kelly lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- 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
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 35 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Kelly often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify their values and take small committed steps toward a more meaningful life. ACT supports work on anxiety, avoidance, and motivation by focusing on what matters and practical actions toward it.She also integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thought patterns and try new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it breaks problems into manageable skills and exercises.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and life demands and then try methods that seem to fit. That collaboration makes it easier to adjust pacing and tasks as needs change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video helps with richer communication when schedules allow, phone can be a quicker check-in, and chat or messaging can suit short updates or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options help therapy fit into busy lives and different technical situations.
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