About John
John Kelly is a Licensed Professional Counselor with more than 20 years helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, and trauma. He works from Alabama and speaks English. He offers in-person style care and online options for people who prefer remote sessions.
Kelly focuses on practical steps people can use right away. He listens, helps clients name what matters most, and works on manageable changes. Sessions often include straightforward skills for coping, mood regulation, and solving immediate problems.
Background and approach
Clients come with many concerns such as grief, relationship strain, sleep problems, parenting stress, self-esteem, and career challenges. He also sees people dealing with bipolar disorder, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and long-term caregiving burdens. He supports those processing abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, blended family tensions, and health-related stressors.
His approach pulls from several therapy models. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) inform work on connection, values, and acceptance. Sessions can include individual or group formats. John uses techniques suited to each person’s goals and day-to-day life.
He aims to make therapy practical and understandable so people can use what they learn outside sessions.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify their values and take committed steps that fit those values while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It teaches practical strategies for changing unhelpful thought patterns and building more effective habits, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep, and addiction concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review concerns, goals, and preferences and suggest which methods to try first. Clients and the therapist adjust the plan as needed, aiming for approaches that feel useful and realistic for daily life.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in, live chat supports shorter exchanges, and text-based messaging can be handy for ongoing brief support. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while using the same therapeutic tools as in-person care.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English