About Kelly
Kelly L Mattis helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood, or difficult relationship patterns. She is Kelly L Mattis, LPCC, LPC-MH, and brings steady experience to conversations about trauma, self-esteem, and life transitions. Her style is straightforward and compassionate for adults and young adults seeking change.
She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address emotional pain and everyday problems. Sessions focus on practical skills like better communication, mood regulation, and managing panic or worry.
Background and approach
Kelly also supports people working through grief, loss, and the effects of past abuse. Her work often centers on understanding family of origin issues, control and boundary concerns, and patterns that repeat across relationships. She pays attention to the ways chronic illness, caregiving responsibilities, and aging can increase strain and isolation.
The aim is to help clients build resilience and clearer choices. Kelly has 28 years of clinical experience in North Dakota. That background influences how she blends direct problem-solving with space to process feelings.
She listens for strengths and helps clients turn them into usable tools. In sessions people can expect collaboration on concrete goals and step-by-step plans. Kelly offers video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
Work begins by naming priorities, then trying changes that feel manageable and realistic.
How therapeutic methods translate to online care
Kelly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional healing. One common approach emphasizes building coping and regulation skills to reduce anxiety and manage panic attacks; this involves learning short exercises and practicing them between sessions. Another approach centers on processing trauma and past hurt by pacing conversations and developing safety and grounding strategies to reduce distress during recall.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and comfort level. Together they try methods, check what helps, and adjust the plan as needed so the approach fits the person rather than the other way around.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat or text-based messaging fits short check-ins, skill practice, or people who prefer typed communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy days while working toward the same therapeutic goals.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota
- Languages
- English