About Kelly
Kelly Drake is a Licensed Master Social Worker with 25 years of clinical experience. She helps people dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, parenting strain, ADHD, grief, and relationship concerns. Her tone is calm and direct, and she aims to make sessions understandable and practical for busy parents.
Kelly spent early years working with children and adolescents on suicide risk and trauma in the Detroit, Michigan area. She then served as an Army officer and social worker, focusing on suicide assessment and trauma care for service members.
Background and approach
That mix of community mental health and military work shaped a practical approach to hard problems. In sessions she blends attachment-focused thinking with client-centered listening. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas to address sleep, nightmares, and symptoms that get in the way of daily life.
Solution-focused methods help set small, achievable goals between appointments. Kelly aims to build a steady working relationship rather than hand out quick fixes. She is straightforward about what needs to change and moves at a pace that feels safe for each person.
Her style emphasizes respect, empathy, and clear feedback. Parents will find concrete strategies for managing behaviors, sleep, and stress. People navigating grief, addiction, or identity concerns can expect a thoughtful mix of practical tools and deeper exploration of family and attachment patterns.
Her Michigan license is listed as MI LMSW. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How her approaches translate to online care
Kelly uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This helps people who struggle with trust, closeness, or repeated relationship problems understand why they react the way they do and try different ways of connecting.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on the link between thoughts, behaviors, and feelings. CBT techniques are useful for anxiety, sleep problems, ADHD-related challenges, and managing nightmares by practicing small skill changes between sessions.
Finding the right approach happens together. Kelly will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust methods over time. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that fits day-to-day life and what a person hopes to change.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging provides practical flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues and fuller conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat or messaging supports quick check-ins and brief problem-solving, and text works well for short updates or when scheduling is tight. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or parenting routines while using the therapist's approaches in ways that match each person's needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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