Kelley Machado
Compassionate support for families and parents
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Connecticut, Maine
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kelley
Kelley Machado is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with two decades of experience supporting families and parents facing difficult moments. She helps people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addiction, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting challenges, self-esteem issues, and trauma. Kelley works with individuals, couples, and families to strengthen relationships and improve daily functioning.
Kelley’s background includes work in mental health, the criminal justice system, and medical social work. That variety shaped her understanding of how life transitions affect emotions and behavior.
Background and approach
She has supported people through losses, new beginnings, separations, medical concerns, and other major changes. In sessions she starts by getting to know each person and family. She tailors the approach rather than using a single method for everyone.
Kelley draws on practical, evidence-based techniques to build skills and manage distress. Her training includes cognitive behavioral methods, attachment ideas, developmental perspectives, trauma theory, and dialectical behavioral strategies. In plain terms these approaches help people change unhelpful thoughts, understand relationship patterns, work through past hurts, and build practical coping skills.
Kelley speaks English and is based in Connecticut. She has experience with many cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds and is open to working with international clients via online formats. She invites families and parents to take the first step toward clearer coping and healthier relationships.
Approaches that fit family life and online care
Many of Kelley’s methods are practical and skill-focused. Cognitive behavioral techniques look at thoughts and behaviors and teach concrete tools to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and handle parenting stress. Dialectical behavioral strategies focus on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which can help in tense relationship moments and parenting challenges.She also uses attachment-informed and developmental ideas to help families see how patterns formed and how they affect current relationships. Trauma-informed perspectives guide work with past hurts so families can build safer interactions and better boundaries. Kelley discusses these approaches with each family and decides together which methods fit their goals and comfort level.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy parents and families. Video calls let people talk face-to-face from home, phone sessions remove travel time, and live chat or text messaging can provide brief check-ins or support between full sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while juggling school, work, and family schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut, Maine
- Languages
- English
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