About Kelley
Kelley Halter is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor with 15 years of practice experience in New Hampshire. She offers a calm, respectful presence for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, and ADHD. Kelley focuses on practical help so clients can manage day-to-day life more smoothly.
She works in a client-centered way, listening first to what matters most to each person. From there she blends approaches to fit the situation, including cognitive behavior strategies and emotion-focused work.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to build skills that are easy to use between meetings, such as thinking habits, emotion regulation, and clearer communication. Kelley often helps people dealing with family-related strain, parenting stress, adoption and foster care questions, and blended family issues. She also supports those coping with grief, trauma and abuse, chronic illness or pain, and disruptions in sleep or eating.
Her background includes attachment-oriented perspectives that look at how early relationships shape current patterns. Kelley uses that understanding to help clients rebuild self-worth and repair important connections when possible. She also uses dialectical behavior tools for strong emotion management and distress tolerance.
Therapy with Kelley is paced to match each person's goals. She encourages small, realistic steps toward better coping and clearer priorities. People who prefer straightforward, empathetic guidance and practical strategies often find this approach useful.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand connection needs and rebuild trust or closeness in important relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches concrete strategies to change them, which can help with anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related difficulties. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, provides practical skills for managing intense emotions, improving interpersonal effectiveness, and tolerating distress.Kelley treats the choice of approach as a collaborative process. She listens to the person’s goals and tries methods that fit their needs and preferences. Together they check in on what’s working and adjust the plan over time so it stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video works well for more in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients share thoughts between meetings and keep momentum when life is busy. These options help people fit therapy into different schedules and routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New Hampshire
- Languages
- English
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