About May
May Kirby uses a collaborative, person-centered approach to therapy. She is an LPC with ten years of clinical experience and focuses on building a strong working relationship first. May listens for what matters most and helps people find practical ways to make changes they can stick with.
She works with stress and anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse concerns, and issues around self-esteem and relationships. She also supports people coping with grief, addiction, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and intimacy-related concerns.
How May works
May helps people who feel isolated or stuck, and those facing life changes or career strain. Her practice blends acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive behavior strategies and attachment-based thinking. That means she helps people notice thoughts and feelings, clarify values, and take small steps toward meaningful goals.
Sessions also include talking through patterns learned from early relationships and practicing new ways of relating to others and to oneself. May draws on existential ideas when people are wrestling with life purpose, meaning, or big decisions. She keeps language plain and focuses on actions that fit daily life, not jargon or long homework lists.
Her goal is to help people get relief and build skills that carry beyond sessions. May offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for people in South Carolina and beyond. She accepts international clients and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
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May lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What May works with
The areas below are the ones May selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | South Carolina |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then clarify what matters and take small, value-driven steps. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and when life changes feel overwhelming.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with panic, mood disorders, obsessions, and sleep or eating problems.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and communication. It helps people understand where their reactions come from and practice different, healthier ways of relating to others and themselves.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. May will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they will choose or combine approaches and adjust as progress is made so the plan fits the client's life and pace.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper discussion and exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief reflections, between-session check-ins, or when scheduling needs to be more flexible. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different time zones.
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A practical next step
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