About Kellie
Kellie Kiernan is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) based in Ohio with 15 years of counseling experience. She offers focused, practical support for adults dealing with anxiety, stress, grief, and relationship or intimacy-related concerns. Her style is direct and grounded, aimed at helping people find clearer ways to cope and move forward.
Kellie uses a mix of approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy and emotion-focused methods to help clients understand patterns that keep them stuck.
Background and approach
She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people name their values and take realistic steps toward them. Sessions emphasize concrete tools for emotion regulation and communication. Her background includes training in art therapy alongside counseling, which she integrates when it fits a client's goals.
Kellie works with individual adults on issues like low self-esteem, anger, trauma and abuse, and coping with life changes. She also addresses concerns such as abandonment, codependency, attachment issues, and hospice and end-of-life counseling. Therapy is conducted through messaging and chat-based formats, with response times and scheduling handled through appointments.
Kellie outlines boundaries clearly, including session timing and documentation limits, so expectations are known up front. She asks new clients to join an initial consultation to review concerns and see if her approach is a good match. Clients who come to Kellie can expect straightforward conversation, practical skill work, and collaborative planning.
Her aim is to help people reduce distress, improve relationships, and build more stable ways of coping within daily life.
Online approaches that work with everyday life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting trapped by them, and identify the values that matter so they can take small meaningful steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety or depressed mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers clear skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication when feelings run high.Kellie will work with each person to figure out which approaches fit best. Deciding on a method is a collaborative process that considers a client's goals, daily demands, and what has or hasn't helped before. She adjusts techniques as people learn what helps them feel steadier in everyday situations.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Messaging and live chat work well for ongoing skill practice, brief updates, or when flexible timing is essential. These formats aim to make therapy more accessible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English