About Kelly
Kelly Ready is an AASW-accredited counsellor with 15 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief or trauma, and supports clients facing depression, relationship and intimacy challenges. She also assists those managing parenting stress, addiction concerns, ADHD-related issues and body image or eating difficulties.
Kelly keeps conversations direct and compassionate. She listens first, then helps set small, practical goals. Sessions are tailored to each person’s life and pace, and she draws on several approaches to meet different needs.
Background and approach
Her background includes many years working with people coping with loss, birth trauma and complex emotional reactions. Kelly says the first step takes courage, and she focuses on building trust while helping people find workable strategies. She balances short-term tools with deeper work on patterns and attachment needs.
Kelly uses techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based approaches. She also draws on client-centred ideas and skills from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy when helpful. These approaches are chosen to match the issue and the person, not as a one-size-fits-all package.
Outside clinical work Kelly is a parent of three and understands the pressures of juggling family and work. That lived experience informs practical suggestions for fitting therapy into a busy life. She aims for clear, realistic steps that people can use between sessions.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without being overwhelmed by them. It focuses on values and small actions that move someone toward a more meaningful life, which can help with anxiety, stress and low mood. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behaviour. It is useful for anxiety, sleep problems, eating concerns and managing strong emotions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Kelly will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide whether ACT, CBT or attachment-informed ideas suit the situation, and plans are adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short check-ins, homework support or when typing feels easier than speaking. These formats make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around school runs, work and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Parenting issues
- 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 esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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