About Kelsey
Kelsey Giddings brings four years of clinical experience as a Licensed Professional Counselor in Louisiana. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. Kelsey also supports those who are sorting through relationship and family concerns.
Her style is warm and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people take practical steps forward. Kelsey creates a nonjudgmental space where people can talk about their thoughts and feelings. She emphasizes clear goals and small changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what feels most urgent to the client and on building skills that help between meetings. Kelsey draws on client-centered methods to prioritize each person’s experience. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of responding.
Mindfulness strategies help clients notice emotions without getting overwhelmed. She also uses motivational interviewing to strengthen commitment when people feel stuck. Solution-focused techniques help set achievable steps toward concrete goals.
Together these approaches offer practical tools for everyday life. Kelsey works with adults who want straightforward support for mood, stress, and relationship concerns. She explains steps plainly and helps clients weigh options.
Her aim is to empower people to make choices that fit their values and daily life.
How Kelsey’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy puts the person’s experience first and guides sessions around what matters most to the individual. This approach helps when someone needs emotional support and a safe space to sort out feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical steps to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, and stress.Finding the right method is part of the work together. Kelsey will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, then try approaches that fit the client’s needs. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates, between-session support, and flexibility for busy days. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English