About Kelly
Kelly Conlon is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Georgia. She helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, eating and body image concerns, and major life changes. Kelly also supports those dealing with grief, addiction, ADHD, parenting strain, and intimacy or career questions.
She keeps sessions warm and direct. Kelly aims to make hard conversations feel manageable. She uses straightforward tools and gentle challenge to help people try new ways of handling problems.
Background and approach
Kelly earned a bachelor’s degree in Childhood and Family Development from the University of Georgia and a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from Pepperdine University. Over eight years she has worked in hospitals, residential and outpatient eating disorder centers, outpatient substance treatment, and independent practice settings.
These experiences shaped her practical approach to common struggles. Her work is grounded in client-centered care. She combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and attachment-focused ideas to match each person’s needs.
Sessions usually include skill-building, values clarification, and checking patterns that get in the way of change. Kelly values respect, honesty, and a bit of humor. She supports people who want to feel more confident and able to handle life’s demands.
Outside of work she enjoys hiking, cooking, travel, reading, and time with family and pets.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking action toward those values, even when difficult feelings come up; it can help with anxiety, low mood, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change them, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns affect current connections and communication, helping with intimacy, family dynamics, and trust issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or blend methods that match their goals, personality, and situation. That means trying strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together over time.
Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers practical flexibility. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skill practice and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a person prefers no camera. Live chat and text messaging can suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied daily routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English