Kelly Gesker
Calm, practical support for family life
- Credentials
- LPCC, LPC
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed in
- Montana, California, Oregon
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kelly
Kelly Gesker is a licensed counselor based in Montana who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and related issues. She brings 27 years of experience to sessions and keeps a relaxed, down-to-earth style. Kelly aims to listen first, help you name what feels hard, and find practical ways forward together.
Her approach is warm and supportive with a light touch of humor when appropriate. She looks for strengths clients already have and helps build on them to tackle current problems.
Background and approach
People can expect straightforward conversation, gentle challenge, and practical steps to try between meetings. Kelly uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships affect current connections and reactions. She also draws on Solution-Focused Therapy to set clear goals and try specific strategies that can show quick improvements.
These methods are used to address relationship strain, parenting challenges, trauma concerns, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, and coping with change. Sessions take place online through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Kelly accepts clients who live outside the U.S. and conducts work in English.
She explains how online counseling works and helps people get comfortable with the process before starting therapeutic work. If someone is unsure how to begin, Kelly guides them through a short matching questionnaire and scheduling steps. She responds to messages regularly and encourages questions about fit and logistics before beginning therapy.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional reactions. Online sessions using this approach help people identify patterns in how they connect with others and practice new ways of relating that feel safer and more effective.Solution-Focused Therapy is goal-oriented and practical. In remote sessions Kelly helps clients set small, concrete goals and tests simple strategies between meetings to build momentum and notice change quickly.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kelly collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in about what is helping and adjusts the plan together as therapy progresses.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy family schedules and for people living in different places. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions offer an easier technological option, and live chat or text messaging can be useful for shorter check-ins and ongoing support. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into daily life while keeping the focus on practical steps and relationship work.
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.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Montana, California, Oregon
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Kelly
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- Stop at any point