About Mona
Mona Lisa Kelly is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Michigan with 34 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are stressed, anxious, grieving, struggling with eating concerns, managing anger, or facing depression. Her approach centers on supporting each person as they try to make changes and feel more capable.
Kelly emphasizes that clients know their own stories and brings a respectful, strengths-based stance to sessions. She helps people identify practical steps, build motivation, and strengthen self-esteem.
Background and approach
The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes. She also works with people coping with cancer, caregiver strain, chronic pain or illness, and disability. Other concerns she supports include forgiveness, guilt and shame, impulsivity, life purpose, prejudice and discrimination, and social anxiety and phobia.
Work and young adult issues and women’s concerns are part of her focus as well. Sessions aim to be collaborative and straightforward. She listens, asks focused questions, and offers strategies clients can try between sessions.
That might include small behavior changes, new ways to manage intense feelings, or steps to rebuild confidence. Kelly frames therapy as a partnership where the client sets goals and she provides guidance and encouragement. She encourages people to take the first step toward a life that feels more balanced and meaningful.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Mona Lisa Kelly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and problem solving. One common approach is skills-focused work that teaches ways to manage strong emotions, reduce anxiety, and handle anger more effectively. This involves learning small, repeatable strategies and practicing them between sessions.Another approach emphasizes grief and loss coping strategies, helping people process sadness and rebuild routines after big changes. These methods combine talk-based reflection with step-by-step actions to restore daily functioning and meaning.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Kelly works with each person to identify goals, try a few methods, and adjust the plan based on what helps. She treats the client as the expert on their life and provides guidance to match needs, goals, and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility for working adults and caregivers. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or having a quick check-in matters. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing encouragement, and managing moments between scheduled sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep work moving toward meaningful change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English