About Kelly
Kelly Walsh is a licensed independent social worker with 31 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and ADHD. Kelly offers a calm, respectful presence and practical help when emotions feel overwhelming.
She focuses on everyday problems that make life harder. That includes relationship and intimacy concerns, career strain, sleep and eating struggles, and compassion fatigue. She also helps people coping with trauma, bipolar mood concerns, and major life changes.
Background and approach
In sessions she listens first and works with each person to set clear, achievable goals. She uses tools drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to change unhelpful patterns. She also draws on attachment-based ideas to improve how people connect with others.
Kelly takes a client-centered stance, so therapy moves at a pace the person can manage. She balances skill-building with space to process difficult feelings. That approach supports practical coping, better communication, and more reliable daily routines.
Kelly practices in Ohio and offers services in English. She is mindful of LGBTQ+ identities and diverse life paths. People from varied backgrounds and situations are welcome to explore whether her style fits their needs.
Approaches that fit online care and daily life
Kelly often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that get in the way of daily functioning. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and managing ADHD-related routines.She also draws on attachment-based therapy to look at patterns in close relationships and to help people build more supported ways of relating. That work can help with intimacy issues, communication problems, and recovering from relational trauma.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Kelly will work with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they try ideas, track what helps, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people use visual cues and fuller conversation. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat or text-based messaging can support brief check-ins, homework help, or slower-paced reflection. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent across changing schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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