About Madeline
Madeline Lucille "Lucy" Kelley offers calm, practical support for people facing relationship strain, low self-esteem, career setbacks, addiction, grief, and changes in life circumstances. She frames work in simple terms and helps clients set clear goals they can act on. Lucy is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC with two decades of clinical experience and an approachable, steady style.
She draws on techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people notice patterns and make small shifts that matter.
How Madeline works
Mindfulness practices and solution-focused tools are used when they match a person's goals. Sessions focus on real-life steps rather than abstract theory. Before moving into independent practice, Lucy spent years contributing to the profession through board service and teaching.
She served on the Michigan Counseling Licensure Board for eight years and has lectured at several universities. Those roles shaped her way of explaining difficult topics clearly and directly. Her work often addresses chronic pain, illness, and disability alongside emotional concerns, and she helps people handle communication problems, codependency, and the fallout from divorce or separation.
Lucy also supports those wrestling with workplace issues, guilt, shame, and questions of self-love. Therapy can include conversations about intimacy, anger, or depression while building practical strategies for coping. Sessions use straightforward language, collaborative planning, and tools clients can use between appointments.
Lucy practices from Arkansas and conducts sessions in English, including with international clients. Clients start by answering a short questionnaire to match goals and then schedule sessions that fit their life. She works with subscription-based sessions that can be canceled at any time.
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What Madeline works with
The areas below are the ones Madeline selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
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Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arkansas |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking committed steps toward those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. It can help with depression, anxiety, and life transitions by shifting focus from fighting feelings to building a meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for mood concerns, anxiety, and problems like low self-esteem or workplace stress. Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes the person's perspective and relies on empathetic listening so clients feel heard and can explore their own solutions.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each client about goals and preferences, then try techniques that fit. Sessions are collaborative and may blend methods as needed to match goals and life context.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation across distance, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat can be a quick way to check in, and messaging supports brief updates or ongoing coaching between appointments. These options make scheduling more flexible and help maintain continuity of care when life gets busy.
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