About Kelly
Kelly James-Fraser is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Georgia with ten years of clinical experience. She has spent much of her career supporting people who have faced trauma, emotional abuse, and chronic mental health challenges. Her work has included settings such as inpatient care and correctional services, giving her practice a broad clinical background.
Kelly has worked with individuals dealing with depression, anxiety, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, career stress, and trauma-related concerns.
Background and approach
Her experience includes work with young adults and veterans who have had post-traumatic stress. She uses straightforward talk and practical steps to help people move forward. Her approach is person-centered and solution-focused.
That means sessions begin with the client’s goals and build a plan that fits their life. Kelly draws on methods like cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness, dialectical behavior techniques, and emotionally-focused work as needed. Sessions are collaborative and paced to what each person needs.
Kelly listens for patterns such as attachment or abandonment issues, difficulties with self-esteem or control, and co-occurring concerns like chronic pain or addiction. She tailors interventions to strengths and real-life constraints. Kelly also supports people coping with grief, caregiver stress, body image, sexual concerns related to kink and BDSM culture, and challenges tied to aging or chronic illness.
She focuses on clear steps, skills practice, and ongoing review so people can track change and adjust goals.
How therapeutic approaches translate online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a plan around what matters most to the person. In online sessions this means conversations start with goals and the therapist follows the client’s lead to set priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors with concrete exercises. Online work can include practice assignments, thought records, and brief skill-building between sessions to reinforce progress.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. In remote sessions, DBT skills can be taught in short segments and practiced through role play or messaging to support real-time skill use.
Picking the right approach is a collaborative process. Kelly will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try strategies that fit their life. Adjustments are made as progress is reviewed so the work stays relevant.
Online formats offer flexibility that helps therapy fit into busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier on days when video feels like too much. Live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins, skill coaching between sessions, and people who prefer written communication.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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