About Kelsey
Kelsey Poole is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with four years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, career concerns, and depression. Kelsey aims to create a respectful and compassionate space where people can begin to sort through difficult emotions.
She adapts conversations and plans to match each person’s situation instead of using a one-size-fits-all approach. Sessions tend to be practical and goal-oriented, with room to talk about what matters most to the client.
Background and approach
Kelsey helps clients build skills they can use between meetings to handle hard moments. Kelsey draws from several evidence-based approaches, though she keeps language simple in sessions. She helps people notice what matters to them, challenge unhelpful thoughts, and practice new ways to cope with stress and panic.
The work often includes learning strategies for emotional regulation and clearer communication. People come to her with varied concerns beyond the main areas, including attachment worries, body image, codependency, grief or guilt, impulsivity, loneliness, and struggles with life purpose. She also supports people coping with natural or human-caused disasters and sudden life changes.
Kelsey works in English and conducts therapy remotely through multiple formats. Beginning therapy can feel hard, and Kelsey recognizes that first step takes courage. She collaborates with each person to set manageable goals and to find approaches that fit their daily life.
How these approaches shape online therapy
Kelsey uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take small actions that matter to them. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing steps that align with personal goals, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and practice alternative responses. CBT breaks problems into manageable parts, which often helps with panic, low mood, and work-related stress by teaching coping strategies and behavioral experiments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kelsey will listen to a person's goals and preferences and then suggest methods that seem like a good fit. She encourages collaboration so clients can try techniques and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow deeper conversation with face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can work for brief check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or travel, while still using ACT and CBT techniques in a flexible way.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English