About Kelly
Kelly Walsh is a licensed independent social worker with 31 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and trauma. She offers a calm, accepting approach and aims to make therapy feel practical and manageable for worried parents and busy adults. She focuses on everyday problems that affect family life and personal wellbeing.
That includes relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, addiction issues, sleep and eating difficulties, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with ADHD, compassion fatigue, and identity questions related to LGBT experiences. Kelly blends several therapy approaches to fit each person’s needs. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape patterns today.
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and build new habits. Mindfulness and skills from dialectical behavior therapy help with emotion regulation and stress management. Born from long clinical practice, her style is warm and straightforward.
Sessions are focused on concrete steps clients can try between meetings. She listens for what matters most to each person and helps set small, practical goals. Kelly practices in Ohio as an OH LISW.
She works with adults on a wide range of concerns, including trauma, bipolar challenges, and blended family issues. International clients who speak English are also supported through online formats such as video, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Kelly uses attachment-based therapy to explore how early relationships shape current behavior and connection patterns; this helps people who struggle with intimacy, trust, or repeating relationship problems. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors to reduce anxiety and lift mood.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Kelly will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients take an active role in choosing techniques and setting achievable steps between sessions.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lives. Video sessions work well for in-depth conversations and face-to-face connection. Phone calls can be a lower-bandwidth option when video is difficult. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to check in quickly, handle brief coaching, or keep momentum between meetings. These options make scheduling more flexible and reduce travel time, helping therapy fit into work, caregiving, and busy family routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- 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
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's 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
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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