Kelsey Devries
Supportive LMSW focused on practical family and parenting help
- Credentials
- LMSW
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kelsey
Kelsey Devries is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) with nine years of experience. She brings a warm, interactive style and focuses on helping people move toward their own definition of wellness. Kelsey aims to create a comfortable space where clients can talk honestly, and she values openness and moments of shared levity when they arise.
She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy, along with client-centered techniques and motivational interviewing.
Background and approach
Those methods are used to address stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, parenting challenges, grief, and relationship difficulties. Sessions emphasize clear skills and step-by-step problem solving tailored to each person’s goals. Kelsey has particular experience supporting people dealing with family issues, intimacy-related concerns, and the emotional toll of caregiving.
She also works with concerns such as attachment and abandonment wounds, blended family stress, body image, codependency, and substance use struggles. Her approach blends concrete coping skills with attention to personal values and relationships. In sessions she listens first, then helps set practical goals.
Treatment plans are guided by what the client wants to change. Kelsey combines structured therapy tools with a collaborative, compassionate manner to help clients build coping strategies and make meaningful changes. She practices in Michigan and offers help in English.
Kelsey frames therapy as a shared process and aims to help each person find what works for them.
Using practical therapy approaches online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and working from what matters most to the client. The therapist offers empathy and supports clients in finding their own solutions, which helps when goals are unclear or changing.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships, using step-by-step tools for regulation and distress tolerance.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will try methods that fit the person’s needs and adjust the plan over time.
Online sessions can be done by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care, practice new skills between sessions, and reach therapy from home or other convenient locations.
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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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