About Kelly
Kelly Chaiken-Crooks is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, grief, and trauma. She also supports those dealing with parenting strain, addictions, intimacy issues, ADHD, and mood concerns. Kelly aims to create a warm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk honestly and begin to make change.
Kelly uses a collaborative approach. Early sessions focus on understanding a person's goals and what matters most to them.
Background and approach
From there she and the client build a practical plan with clear steps to try between sessions. She values direct feedback and gentle challenge when it helps progress. Her work blends Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Mindfulness Therapy.
That mix lets her match strategies to each person’s needs, whether the priority is changing patterns, building motivation, or managing difficult emotions. Kelly has five years of experience in outpatient and community settings. She has helped people navigate loss, family conflict, communication problems, co-occurring mood concerns, and compassion fatigue.
Her background includes work with adoption and foster care issues, abandonment, codependency, and blended family stress. Clients in Michigan will find straightforward care focused on useful tools and small changes. Kelly emphasizes collaboration, respect, and practical next steps to help people move toward the life they want.
How Kelly’s approaches translate to online therapy
Kelly often uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening closely, reflecting what matters to the client, and helping them find their own solutions. This approach supports work on relationship issues, self-esteem, grief, and life transitions.She also applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence mood and stress. CBT gives clear tools and exercises to practice between sessions, useful for anxiety, depression, and anger management.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Kelly will discuss goals, try different techniques, and adjust plans based on what is helping. Together the client and therapist decide which combination of methods best fits the client's situation and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are helpful when visual cues and a fuller conversation matter. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits the day. Live chat and text messaging let clients check in between sessions, share smaller updates, or use brief problem-solving when that works better for their schedule.
These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep working on goals consistently, even when in-person visits are difficult to arrange.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English