About Frankie
Frankie McKelvin is a licensed professional counselor practicing in South Carolina. She brings ten years of experience working with adults facing stressful life events and emotional challenges. Frankie aims to help people get clearer about their goals and take practical steps forward.
Frankie emphasizes a collaborative style. She asks clients to be actively involved during sessions and to try short tasks between meetings. Typical homework might include journaling, reflecting on specific topics, or practicing new ways of communicating.
Background and approach
Her work focuses on common concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, and addictions. She also helps with parenting strain, career concerns, body image, and self-esteem struggles. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care matters, attachment and blended family issues, multicultural concerns, and caregiver stress.
Frankie uses conversational, down-to-earth language in sessions. She mixes client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral and solution-focused approaches. Narrative techniques are used when stories about identity, culture, or life experience are important to the work.
People come to her looking for practical ways to feel better and to manage life changes. She works to create clear steps clients can take, while honoring each person’s background and values. Sessions are offered in English and are provided through multiple online formats to fit different needs.
Therapeutic approaches for online sessions
Frankie commonly uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening carefully and helping people identify their own solutions and goals. This approach is useful when someone needs a space to process feelings and make decisions without feeling judged.She also employs cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, stress management, and coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Frankie collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She may combine elements from different approaches and adjust plans as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when internet bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text-based messaging can support brief check-ins, ongoing reflection, or quicker scheduling on busy days. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Visually impaired
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English