About Kelly
Kelly Lockett is an AASW-accredited social worker with 19 years of experience. She offers calm, practical support for people dealing with anxiety, stress, depression, ADHD and parenting concerns. Her style is warm and straightforward, helping people understand what’s happening and take small, manageable steps forward.
Kelly uses evidence-based approaches to help clients learn new skills and cope better day-to-day. Sessions focus on clear goals, practical strategies and improving emotional regulation.
Background and approach
She creates a non-judgemental space where people can talk through difficult feelings and practise different ways of responding. Her working methods draw on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to change unhelpful thinking patterns and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy to build emotion regulation and distress tolerance. She also blends elements from solution-focused work and relational approaches to suit each person’s needs.
Kelly has taught social work students at the University of Tasmania, sharing practical knowledge about mental health and child safety. That background supports a grounded, clinical perspective in sessions and helps her explain ideas simply. Clients meet Kelly to build skills for managing worry, improve communication, cope with parenting stress and manage mood or attention difficulties.
She supports people to set clear goals, try new strategies between sessions and track progress over time. People who prefer practical, collaborative work that focuses on real-life change tend to find her approach useful. Kelly aims to help each person leave sessions with at least one clear action to try before the next meeting.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Kelly commonly uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical experiments that change how they feel and act. This approach suits worry, panic and low mood because it focuses on small, testable changes.She also draws on Dialectical Behaviour Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance and mindful awareness. These skills are useful for managing intense feelings, impulsivity and improving everyday coping strategies.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kelly will talk about different options, try techniques in session and adapt methods to match your goals and preferences. That collaborative process helps decide what feels most helpful over time.
Online therapy with Kelly is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for more in-depth skill practice, phone calls work when bandwidth is an issue, and messaging can help with brief check-ins or step-by-step coaching between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, school and family commitments while keeping the focus on practical change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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