About Kelley
Kelley Kramer is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia who helps adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, phobias, and trauma. She also supports people dealing with grief, relationship strain, anger, ADHD, and major life changes. Kelley writes simply and directly to make reaching out feel easier for worried people.
Kelley focuses on clear, practical work in sessions. She listens first and helps clients name what feels most urgent. Together they set small goals and try out skills that can be used between visits.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to reduce overwhelm and build routines that feel manageable. Her approach draws on several evidence-informed methods, including cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thinking and acceptance strategies to handle difficult feelings. She uses client-centered techniques that prioritize each person's pace and priorities.
Dialectical and emotion-focused ideas are part of how she helps people better regulate strong emotions. Kelley checks messages several times a day and tries to respond promptly. She will reply evenings and weekends when asked.
Her practice offers flexibility in how people connect and schedule sessions. She has five years of clinical experience working with adults on a wide range of concerns. Kelley aims to create a calm, straightforward setting where people can address the problems that brought them to therapy.
If someone wants to begin, she guides them through the first steps and the scheduling process.
Approaches that work online and how they help
Kelley commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in her online practice. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without trying to fight them and living according to personal values, which helps with anxiety, phobias, and life transitions. CBT looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them, which can reduce panic, obsessive thinking, and low mood.She aims to find the best fit together. Early sessions focus on what matters to the client, what goals feel realistic, and which methods feel comfortable. The therapist and client check in and adjust the plan based on how the work is going, so the approach evolves from actual needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different lives and routines. Video allows face-to-face conversation when bandwidth allows, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat work well for short check-ins or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy days and to keep regular contact between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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