About Michele
Dr. Michele Kelly is a licensed clinical social worker who helps teens and adults facing transitions and everyday pressures. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, parenting challenges, and life changes.
Her style is direct and calm, aimed at making things feel more manageable sooner rather than later. Dr. Kelly draws on 15 years of experience as an LCSW in Louisiana.
She begins by listening to what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
Then she and the client create simple goals and steps to reach them. Sessions emphasize clear coping skills and real-life problem solving rather than abstract talk. Her approach blends acceptance and commitment strategies with cognitive and mindfulness techniques.
That means you can expect help noticing difficult thoughts, practicing small behavior changes, and learning ways to steady emotions. She also uses client-centered conversation to keep the work driven by your priorities. Clients often come with questions about parenting, family conflict, adoption and foster care issues, caregiving stress, or adjusting after a big loss or move.
Dr. Kelly also supports people dealing with bipolar disorder, eating concerns, career stress, and relationship strain. She offers practical guidance for communication and decision making.
Therapy with her is collaborative and paced to fit each person’s needs. Sessions can include skill teaching, short-term coaching, and planning for future challenges. Dr.
Kelly encourages straightforward feedback so the work stays useful and focused.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy involves noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match your values. It can help when anxiety, low mood, or ADHD-related distractions make it hard to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood. It is useful for worry, depression, and gaining clearer routines.Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about your goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan when something is or isn’t working. This collaboration helps tailor the mix of ACT, CBT, or client-centered conversation to fit your needs and pace.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief updates or coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into school, work, or caregiving schedules while keeping treatment consistent and practical.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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