About Kerrie
Kerrie Pelan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with three years of experience working in New York. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. Kerrie values each person's strengths and works alongside them to build confidence and motivation.
Kerrie uses straightforward techniques to help people manage difficult emotions and daily pressures. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness to help notice patterns of thought and practice calmer responses.
How Kerrie works
Motivational Interviewing and solution-focused work are used to set small goals and keep progress moving. Sessions often look like checking what matters most, naming small steps, and trying different tools until something fits. Kerrie helps people talk through relationship struggles, grief, parenting strain, and workplace stress in simple, focused sessions.
She also addresses issues such as ADHD, mood disorders, trauma and abuse, and compassion fatigue. Her approach is collaborative and respectful; she treats clients as the experts on their lives while offering clear strategies that can be put into practice between sessions. Kerrie pays attention to attachment and adoption-related concerns, caregiver stress, and co-morbid conditions so that plans feel realistic and tailored.
People work with Kerrie to build coping skills, improve communication, reduce shame, and find clearer direction. Her aim is to help clients leave sessions with practical steps they can try right away.
Kerrie lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Kerrie works with
The areas below are the ones Kerrie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Practical approaches for online sessions
Kerrie uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify unhelpful thought patterns and try new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and everyday stress because it breaks problems into clear steps and experiments.She also incorporates Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices. Mindfulness helps reduce reactivity and brings more calm into day-to-day moments, which can ease worry and improve focus.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Kerrie works collaboratively to match methods to a person's needs and goals, checking in and adjusting the plan as progress is made. Clients help set goals and choose which techniques to try between sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat suit quick check-ins or ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain momentum between appointments.
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