About Kelly
Kelly Peters brings 35 years of clinical experience to clients seeking support for a wide range of life challenges. She focuses on concerns such as addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, anxiety, depression, relationship and family issues, intimacy-related difficulties, LGBT matters, parenting struggles, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Kelly also addresses many related issues including codependency, communication problems, chronic illness and pain, caregiver stress, divorce and separation, and body image struggles. Her manner is warm, respectful, and collaborative, and she works to empower people to grow, change, and heal.
Kelly blends evidence-informed methods including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and emotionally-focused work, along with client-centered and family systems perspectives. She tailors conversations and treatment plans to each person’s particular needs and goals.
Based in Illinois and licensed as an LCPC, she offers experience across individual, couples, family, and group formats and brings additional training in areas such as addictions, spiritual approaches, and crisis intervention.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Kelly commonly integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in online work. ACT emphasizes clarifying values and learning practical ways to act in line with what matters despite difficult thoughts or feelings, which can help with grief, anxiety, and life transitions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and building skills to change behaviors and emotional responses, useful for depression, stress, and many everyday challenges.Finding the right approach is part of the collaborative process; Kelly will explore goals, strengths, and preferences with each client to determine which methods or combination of methods fit best. This collaborative decision making helps shape a tailored plan that can be adjusted as progress unfolds.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care across busy lives and allow clients to access licensed professionals from their own locations while working on the same therapeutic goals they would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English