About Kelly
Kelly Peters is a licensed counselor who brings 35 years of experience to sessions. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, relationship strain, and big life changes. Her manner is warm, respectful, and collaborative, helping clients set practical goals and try new ways of coping.
Kelly uses straightforward conversations to help people understand what keeps patterns going. She blends cognitive-behavioral ideas with acceptance and commitment principles and client-centered listening.
Background and approach
Together clients and Kelly identify small steps that feel doable and meaningful. Her background includes work in career development, employee assistance programs, crisis intervention, and critical incident debriefing. That experience informs her approach to life transitions and high-stress situations.
She also has post-graduate certificates in areas such as addictions and spiritual psychology. Sessions are tailored to each person’s needs and goals. Kelly draws from dialectical behavior ideas when emotion regulation is needed and from emotionally focused techniques when relationship patterns are the focus.
She explains tools clearly and practices them alongside clients until they feel useful. People who seek therapy with Kelly often want practical strategies, clearer communication, and relief from longstanding patterns. Her Illinois LCPC credential is listed to reflect licensure.
She conducts sessions in English and works with adults navigating grief, trauma, addiction, caregiving strain, and identity-related concerns.
How key approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without fighting them. It emphasizes values and small committed actions, which can guide concrete homework between sessions and short in-session exercises that fit video or phone formats.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors. CBT tools like thought records, behavioral experiments, and skills practice adapt well to video sessions or text-based check-ins so progress can be tracked over time.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on patterns in close relationships and the emotions that drive them. In online sessions this work uses careful reflection, role practice, and guided conversation to shift how people approach intimacy and communication.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, past attempts, and what feels most useful. Together they’ll try methods and adjust the plan based on what helps the client move forward.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face work and longer skill practice, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching and reminders between sessions. These options help fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy schedules.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English