About Kelley
Kelley Halter is a licensed clinical mental health counselor with 15 years of experience supporting people through major life challenges. She practices from New Hampshire and focuses on helping clients manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and relationship strain. Kelley creates a warm, accepting space where people can begin to feel safer talking about hard things.
She uses a client-centered approach that starts with listening. Sessions tend to focus on what matters most to each person, whether that is coping with grief, navigating parenting pressures, or addressing long-standing patterns of self-doubt.
Background and approach
Kelley blends practical skills with reflective conversation to help clients make change that feels doable. Many people seek her help for trauma and abuse recovery, transitions like adoption and blended family issues, or for problems with sleep, eating, and self-esteem.
Kelley also supports those managing ADHD, bipolar disorder, or co-occurring conditions by helping them build routines and coping strategies that fit daily life. Her work draws on attachment-based ideas to understand relationship patterns and on cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She incorporates dialectical behavior skills and emotionally-focused methods when emotion regulation or interpersonal repair is a focus.
Kelley aims to empower people to strengthen resilience without forcing them into quick fixes. She offers a straightforward, compassionate style and helps clients set clear goals for therapy. People who want practical tools alongside thoughtful reflection often find this approach helpful.
How these approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape how people relate today. Online sessions use conversation and exercises to notice patterns and try new ways of connecting when relationship issues are a concern.Client-Centered Therapy centers on respectful listening and following each person’s lead. In remote sessions the therapist offers empathy and reflection so clients can clarify goals and feel supported while they try out changes in daily life.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Over video or messaging, clients practice identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety or improve mood.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan as progress is made. That collaborative stance helps people find what actually helps them.
Online formats offer flexible ways to stay engaged. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins or between-session support. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New Hampshire
- Languages
- English
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