Kelly Gulat
Practical support for life’s big changes
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kelly
Kelly Gulat is a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings 11 years of clinical practice to her work. She practices in Virginia and speaks English. Kelly focuses on helping people manage everyday pressures and bigger life shifts.
She meets people where they are and treats therapy as a practical space to talk things through. Kelly centers conversations on stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and identity concerns. She also addresses relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, sleep difficulties, anger, and career unrest.
Background and approach
Other areas she supports include ADHD, compassion fatigue, and medical or caregiving stress. She pays attention to how physical health, family dynamics, and life transitions shape wellbeing. Her approach is straightforward and person-focused.
Sessions aim to build clarity, stronger coping skills, and better communication. Kelly helps people set realistic goals and practice new ways of responding to difficult moments. She emphasizes collaboration and gentle accountability during that work.
Therapy sessions may include skill practice, thought work, grounding exercises, and conversations about values and choices. Kelly uses methods that match the concern at hand and the client’s preferred pace. She encourages questions about the therapy process and invites clients to weigh in on what feels most helpful.
Taking the first step can feel hard and she acknowledges that courage. Kelly aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where people can explore changes and find clearer direction. She looks to partner with clients as they move toward more manageable daily life and clearer goals.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and helping people explore what matters most to them. This approach supports self-understanding and can help with identity, motivation, and self-esteem. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping with life changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kelly will talk with each person about their goals, concerns, and preferred pace. Together the therapist and client decide which methods to try and adjust them as needed so the therapy fits the person rather than forcing a single method.
Online sessions through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messages make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions remove travel time, and messaging can support brief check-ins or skill practice between sessions. These options offer flexibility so people can access care from home, work, or wherever they feel most comfortable.
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
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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