Christine Williams-Kelly
Calm guidance for practical change
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Christine
Christine Williams-Kelly is a Florida licensed mental health counselor with 17 years of experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She emphasizes a compassionate, culturally aware approach and aims to make therapy practical and understandable for worried parents and busy adults.
Her style is warm and straightforward. Sessions are built around each person’s story and goals. She listens first, then works with clients to set clear steps they can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Christine favors hands-on tools rather than long lectures or vague advice. She draws on a mix of proven methods, including cognitive behavioral strategies and mindfulness practices. Those tools are used to reduce anxious thoughts, manage mood shifts, and build day-to-day coping skills.
Emotion-focused work helps when relationships and attachment issues are part of the struggle. Christine also brings experience with many specific concerns such as parenting stress, grief, trauma and abuse, ADHD, addictions, and issues around identity. She pays attention to family of origin patterns and communication problems that often affect how people relate today.
Practical problem-solving and emotional awareness both matter in her work. Parents can expect clear suggestions to try at home alongside space to talk about what feels hard. The aim is steady progress through realistic goals and regular check-ins.
Therapeutic approaches and how they fit online
Christine commonly blends cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness therapy in her online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to help with stress, emotional reactivity, and staying present.She also uses elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy when emotion regulation or intense mood swings are a concern. DBT skills teach concrete techniques for managing strong feelings and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can be helpful alongside CBT and mindfulness tools.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick strategies that match their needs, goals, and daily life. That means adjusting methods over time based on what works and what doesn’t.
Online sessions offer practical benefits for busy families and individuals. Video calls approximate in-person conversations, phone sessions provide a quick option when screens aren’t convenient, and live chat or text-based messaging lets clients check in between appointments. These formats make scheduling easier and help maintain continuity of care when life gets hectic.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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