Dr. Michele Kelly, LCSW

Dr. Michele Kelly is an LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) based in Louisiana with 15 years of experience. She works with adults and teens who are facing stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, relationship problems, and family of origin issues. She also addresses mood concerns such as depression and bipolar, attention differences like ADHD, and life adjustments tied to career or major changes.

She describes therapy as practical work on current problems. Early sessions focus on an assessment to clarify what matters most. From there she draws on methods that fit each person's situation, emphasizing skill building and problem solving rather than long lectures. Sessions often include practice in new ways of coping with strong emotions and with difficult family patterns.

Michele uses a mix of approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Mindfulness practices. She explains these approaches in straightforward terms and applies them based on what the assessment shows is most helpful. This flexibility is aimed at making sessions relevant to daily life.

She has a history of working with people through common life transitions - starting or changing jobs, parenting a new child, separation and divorce, immigration adjustments, aging concerns, and grief after a loss. She also supports people dealing with blended family issues, caregiver stress, communication problems, and guilt or forgiveness questions.

Dr. Kelly invites people to ask questions before beginning. Her background includes clinical work across settings with teens and adults, and she frames therapy as collaborative problem solving to strengthen coping and decision making.

How her therapeutic approaches work online