About Kelsey
Kelsey Devries is a Licensed Master Social Worker with nine years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical, goal-focused work that helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and trauma. Kelsey keeps sessions warm and interactive so people feel heard and understood from the start.
She uses client-centered therapy to follow each person’s priorities and to build a trusting therapeutic relationship. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and develop clearer thinking patterns.
How Kelsey works
Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness practices offer concrete skills for managing intense emotions and staying present. Kelsey has spent years supporting individuals dealing with relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, and intimacy issues. She also addresses addiction, anger, depression, and compassion fatigue.
Additional focuses include attachment and abandonment concerns, blended family issues, body image, codependency, communication problems, and adjustment around divorce or separation. Sessions combine skills work, problem solving, and motivational conversations to help people make steady changes. Treatment plans are shaped by each person’s goals and paced to what feels manageable.
Kelsey aims to make therapy a positive, collaborative experience and encourages a bit of humor where it fits. She practices in Michigan and offers work in English. People meet her through an online matching process that leads to scheduling based on therapist availability.
Kelsey lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Kelsey works with
The areas below are the ones Kelsey selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the person, which helps shape online sessions around individual goals and concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical ways to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, making it well suited to structured video or phone sessions where homework and skill practice are assigned. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills that people can learn and use between sessions to manage intense feelings and relationship challenges.Deciding which approach to use is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or has not worked in the past. From there the plan can mix approaches, adjust pace, and focus on the skills that feel most useful for the client’s situation.
Online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging let people exchange notes, practice skills, or check in between longer sessions, which can keep momentum going during change.
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