About Kelly
Kelly Chaiken-Crooks is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, parenting challenges, grief, mood concerns and ADHD. She offers straightforward support for intense emotions, addiction struggles, trauma, and problems that come with big life changes. Her tone is direct and compassionate, aimed at parents and adults who want clear next steps.
Kelly tailors sessions to each person she meets. She begins by listening and getting a clear sense of goals.
Background and approach
Early meetings focus on what matters most to the client and on building a simple plan for change. Clients can expect practical strategies alongside emotional support. Her work draws from Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused methods.
She also uses Motivational Interviewing and Mindfulness techniques when helpful. These approaches are adapted to the issue at hand rather than applied the same way to everyone. Kelly has five years of clinical experience in outpatient and community settings across Michigan.
She has supported people at different life stages with individual concerns like communication problems, abandonment issues, caregiver stress, and intimacy-related difficulties. Her clinical background includes work with trauma and mood disorders. In sessions she keeps communication honest and respectful.
She aims to be practical and direct while remaining sensitive to each person’s experience. The goal is to build realistic coping tools and clearer paths forward so clients can make steady, meaningful changes.
How Kelly's Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's experience, allowing the client to set goals while the therapist offers empathy and support. This approach helps with relationship issues, grief, and self-esteem concerns by centering the client's priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) involves identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and practicing practical changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related organization and focus struggles, and stress management because it breaks problems into actionable steps.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match the client's goals, needs, and preferences. That partnership helps shape a plan that can change as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make scheduling easier for busy days. Video is good for deeper conversations when seeing facial cues matters. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for a quieter check-in. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief updates, homework check-ins, or when written reflection helps the client process between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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