Kelly Chaiken-Crooks
Supportive counselor for families and relationships
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kelly
Kelly Chaiken-Crooks is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside a wide range of emotional and relationship issues. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental presence and aims to help people reduce stress and anxiety, manage depression and mood disorders, and navigate relationship and parenting challenges.
Kelly works collaboratively to identify clear goals and practical next steps during early sessions. Her style adapts to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
She draws from proven methods like cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused techniques to build useful skills and small, achievable changes. Motivational interviewing is used to support commitment and help clients find their own reasons for change. Mindfulness practices can be introduced to reduce reactivity and improve focus.
Kelly has five years of counseling experience in outpatient and community settings. She has worked with individuals, couples, and families and has training in trauma-focused approaches for those affected by abuse or significant events. Her experience includes supporting people with addiction, grief, compassion fatigue, and complex family situations like blended family issues and adoption or foster care concerns.
She emphasizes plain talk and practical tools rather than jargon. Early sessions center on understanding what matters most to the client and creating a plan that fits real life. Sessions may include skill practice, problem-solving, and check-ins on progress.
Kelly practices in Michigan and uses a collaborative approach that balances support with clear feedback. Her goal is to help families and individuals move toward healthier patterns and achievable change.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s experience. The therapist offers empathy and support while clients guide the pace and goals of work, which helps when the priority is feeling heard and understood.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and many everyday problems because it breaks issues into concrete steps and homework practice.
Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes small, measurable changes and builds on what is already working. It helps when someone wants fast, goal-directed work to solve specific family or relationship problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they will try methods that fit the client’s needs and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, continue therapy during life transitions, and keep momentum between meetings. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, coach through parenting or relationship moments, and support steady progress.
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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
Next step
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