About Kellye
Kellye Laughery uses a practical, relationship-focused approach to therapy. She combines attachment work, cognitive behavioral tools, and emotion-focused methods to help people facing stress, anxiety, and relationship strain. Kellye is a licensed marriage and family therapist, LMFT, practicing in California with 20 years of experience.
She keeps sessions straightforward and goal-oriented so parents and busy adults can fit therapy into life. In session she listens first, then helps set clear, achievable goals.
How Kellye works
She uses client-centered techniques to make space for each person's perspective. Cognitive behavioral strategies are offered when unhelpful thinking patterns get in the way. Emotionally-focused and attachment-based ideas are used to understand and repair how people connect.
Kellye supports people dealing with family conflict, blended family issues, parenting strain, and separation or divorce. She also addresses grief, career worries, midlife questions, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. Additional focus areas include commitment and communication problems, trauma and post-traumatic stress, veteran and armed forces issues, and self-harm concerns.
Sessions can include practical coaching around career or life changes alongside therapeutic work. Kellye aims to create tools clients can use between appointments, such as communication exercises and coping plans. The emphasis is on skills that help with everyday challenges.
She offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. English-language services are provided in California. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step are used to connect with her practice.
Kellye lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Kellye works with
The areas below are the ones Kellye 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
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How attachment, emotions, and thinking shape online therapy
Kellye draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how relationship patterns affect worry and closeness. That work helps people notice how past connections influence current reactions and intimacy. Cognitive behavioral therapy offers practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors causing anxiety or low mood. CBT gives simple tools to test thoughts and change routines that keep problems going. Emotionally-focused therapy helps name and process strong feelings so conversations with others become clearer and less reactive.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Kellye collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit current goals and comfort. She tailors the mix of attachment work, emotion-focused strategies, and CBT techniques based on what a person needs and prefers.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video lets the therapist and client work with nonverbal cues, phone can be helpful when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text works for quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options allow flexibility for scheduling, shorter contacts when needed, and different ways to practice skills outside appointments.
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