Darcie Kelly
Calm guidance for clear, practical change
- Credentials
- LICSW, LCSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Montana, New Hampshire, Maine
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Darcie
Darcie Kelly is a licensed clinical social worker with two decades of practice. She holds LICSW and LCSW credentials and provides straightforward, practical help for people facing depression, anxiety, trauma, and stress. Her style is warm and inviting, with a direct approach that meets clients where they are.
She aims to make therapy feel comfortable and nonjudgmental from the first session. Kelly uses tools that focus on behavior change and emotional understanding.
Background and approach
She blends cognitive behavioral techniques with acceptance and mindfulness practices. Attachment ideas help uncover patterns in close relationships. The mix is chosen to match each person’s needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Sessions typically emphasize clear steps and real-life skills. That can mean practicing new ways to respond to triggers, testing small behavior changes, or rehearsing conversations. Clients often work on coping with grief, body-image concerns, intimate or sexual issues, and problems with mood or panic.
Her background includes training in applied behavior analysis and a master’s in social work. Those experiences inform a practical focus on what changes will make daily life easier. She also brings knowledge about trauma, domestic violence, and sexual assault to care for people navigating those issues.
Working with Darcie is collaborative. She helps people set realistic goals and supports progress at a steady pace. Her Montana-based practice is geared toward people who want clear tools, steady support, and an accepting therapeutic space.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts without getting stuck in them and then focus on actions that matter most to them. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress when values-based choices feel hard to make. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with panic, mood concerns, and recurring worry.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals and try methods that match their needs and preferences. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust techniques if something isn’t helping.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video and phone let people work in real time and practice conversations. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to use ACT and CBT skills in everyday life without losing momentum.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also works with
- Abandonment
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Montana, New Hampshire, Maine
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Darcie
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- Stop at any point