About Kelly
Kelly Sheets is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Tennessee. She brings eight years of clinical experience and a conversational, down-to-earth style to sessions. She uses practical approaches to help people facing addiction, trauma, mood changes, anxiety, and relationship stress.
Kelly blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance and commitment strategies. She helps people notice unhelpful thinking, try small behavior changes, and figure out values that matter.
How Kelly works
Sessions are often direct and collaborative, with room for honest conversation and problem solving. Her background includes extensive work in residential alcohol and drug programs, where she supported people with co-occurring issues that feed addiction. That experience informs how she addresses substance use, compulsive behaviors, and the stresses that come with recovery.
She also has research experience related to combat-linked PTSD and trauma. Kelly completed a Bachelor of Science in Clinical Psychology and a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from East Tennessee State University. She holds Tennessee and Michigan LPC credentials and draws on social psychology ideas to help normalize difficult feelings and patterns.
In sessions she emphasizes practical skills alongside deeper, existential conversations about meaning and choice. People meet with her to work on mood disorders, eating and anger concerns, coping with life changes, attachment and abandonment worries, and compassion fatigue. Her goal is to help each person find clearer choices and more manageable ways to live day to day.
Kelly lists 11 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.
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work
Kelly often uses acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while tolerating difficult thoughts and feelings. ACT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and problems that involve avoidance.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to identify patterns of thinking and try practical behavior changes that reduce distress. CBT is well suited to addressing intrusive thoughts, compulsive behaviors, and mood symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kelly will discuss goals, preferences, and day-to-day challenges to choose methods that fit. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to what actually helps the person feel more in control and make steady progress.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow interactive conversation and visual cues. Phone work can be easier when bandwidth or mobility is a concern. Live chat and text-based messaging offer brief check-ins, tools practice, or support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit consistent care into a busy life and to keep therapy going when schedules or circumstances change.
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