Counseling Services

Kelley works with people of all ages who are struggling to manage life in a better way. With sensitivity and compassion, she creates a highly personalized approach where clients are able to attain the personal growth they are striving for.

Adolescent Counseling

Kelley offers specialized services for adolescents experiencing emotional, attachment, social and behavioral problems. Like adults, children sometimes need help in sorting out their feelings from the life experiences they have had. Children most often are not able to express these feelings with words, but will show them through their actions.

Among the techniques used are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Art Therapy, Games and Role-playing.

Common adolescent problems:

  • Abuse and Neglect
  • ADD/ADHD
  • Adolescent and Family Issues
  • Adoption
  • Anger
  • Anxiety issues, including separation anxiety, school refusal, social phobia, obsessive-compulsive, sleep problems
  • Attachment
  • Behavior problems
  • Depression
  • School Problems
  • Self-Esteem Issues
  • Social Skills
  • Separation and Divorce
  • Tantrums
  • Traumatic events

Adult Counseling

  • Anger
  • Anxiety
  • Career issues
  • Child Abuse Survivors
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Depression
  • Divorce
  • Grief and Loss
  • Guilt and Forgiveness
  • Life Transitions
  • Medical Illness
  • Personal Growth
  • Women's Issues
  • Stress Management

Couples Counseling

When working with couples, Kelley draws from the ideas and techniques of several different sources:

  • Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, which helps couples get back to their loving feelings, be connected, and be secure and happy in their relationship;
  • John Gottman’s practical, research-based skills to strengthen and repair marriages and relationships;

In addition to helping couples enhance their relationship with each other, Kelley is excellent at helping couples in crisis. She often works with couples dealing with: infidelity, pornography/sex addiction, infertility and fertility treatments, and high-risk pregnancies, including higher-order multiple pregnancies.

Keystone Family Center

Kelley helped to start Keystone Family Center where her practice is located.

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