Brandi Kelly
Practical therapy for stress and parenting
- Credentials
- LA Psychologist 851
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed in
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Brandi
Brandi Kelly is a licensed psychologist in Louisiana with 23 years of experience. She focuses on common struggles such as stress, anxiety, depression, parenting concerns, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue. She aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people who are juggling many demands.
In sessions she works to build an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be shared. She draws on clinical training while keeping the conversation grounded and usable for day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Wellness habits and self-care are woven into the work so progress can last outside the therapy room. Her approach is tailored to each person’s strengths and challenges. She adapts methods to fit different learning and communication styles, including for people with neurological or communication differences.
That means tools and suggestions are presented in clear, manageable steps. Brandi uses practical techniques to help with relationships, family stresses, grief, trauma, ADHD, and other concerns listed in her specialties. She pays attention to each person’s background and preferences when shaping a plan.
The focus is on real changes you can try between sessions. Seeking help can feel intimidating, and she acknowledges that first step takes courage. Brandi offers steady support and coaching aimed at helping people find more balance, clearer goals, and better coping skills over time.
Approaches and online options that fit real life
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the individual. The therapist follows the client’s lead, helps name goals, and supports practical steps that match personal values and preferences. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions affect feelings and teaches specific skills to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress by giving clear strategies to try between sessions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review goals, try techniques together, and adjust methods if something does not fit. That shared decision-making helps shape a plan that feels manageable and relevant to daily life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, childcare, or other responsibilities and allow follow-up or brief check-ins when needed. For many people, having multiple ways to connect helps keep momentum and apply new skills in ordinary moments.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Depression
Also works with
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Brandi
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point