About Kelly
Kelly Ready helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strains, trauma and parenting pressures. She is an AASW counsellor with 15 years of experience and a practical, down-to-earth style. Kelly writes therapy plans to fit busy lives and everyday demands.
She listens first and asks simple questions to understand what is most pressing. Sessions focus on small, workable steps that build skills and reduce overwhelm. Kelly draws on evidence-informed approaches and adapts them to each person’s situation.
How Kelly works
Kelly has worked across a wide range of concerns including depression, addictions, grief, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem and career stress. She also supports people facing ADHD, bipolar mood issues, compassion fatigue and the long-term effects of trauma and abuse.
Her additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, chronic illness and disability, body image, attachment difficulties and kink-friendly sex culture matters. She aims to offer practical strategies for everyday living, as well as space to process painful events. Kelly balances clinical practice with family life as a parent of three, so she understands juggling appointments and household demands.
She invites clients to shape therapy around their goals and schedules. Taking the first step takes courage, and she provides steady, respectful support along the way.
Kelly lists 19 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- 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
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | AASW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
Therapy approaches you can use online
Kelly commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. ACT helps people clarify values and take action even when emotions are difficult, which can be useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes. CBT focuses on practical strategies to change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns, helping with stress, sleeping and mood issues.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Kelly will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. The plan is collaborative - it can be adjusted as you notice what helps and what does not.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls let you work face to face from wherever you are, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat formats suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options help fit therapy around work, family and daily routines.
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