Lauren Kelly
Experienced family therapist focused on practical help
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed in
- Alaska, Georgia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lauren
Lauren Kelly is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 26 years of experience. She focuses on family and parenting concerns along with stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, grief, and a wide range of life challenges. Lauren aims to make reaching out feel doable and respects how hard that first step can be.
She works with couples, families, and individuals, emphasizing connection and relationships as central to healing.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and practical. She helps people repair relationships, manage grief, and regain balance in daily life. Lauren uses familiar, evidence-informed methods to guide change.
She blends client-centered listening with goal-focused strategies so people can move from where they are to where they want to be. She also incorporates mindfulness and brief solution-focused tools to address immediate problems and build coping skills. Clients can expect an honest and warm presence.
Lauren describes herself as authentic, non-judgmental, and with a sense of humor. She aims to create a space where people can speak plainly about what’s hard and begin finding workable steps forward. She offers sessions Monday through Friday using live chat, asynchronous text, phone, or video.
Based in Georgia, she has practiced across several states and brings wide experience working with life transitions and family challenges. Lauren is licensed as an LMFT in Georgia and Alaska.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions help
Lauren blends client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral techniques. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening with empathy and helping people find their own answers, which is useful for relationship and family concerns. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and offers practical tools to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress.She also uses mindfulness in sessions to build present-moment awareness and calm, and solution-focused methods to set short-term goals and create steps that move a person forward quickly. Together these approaches aim to be flexible and practical, and Lauren works with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and situation.
Online therapy with Lauren is offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to match different needs. This flexibility makes it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules, to check in between appointments, or to work from a familiar place. The therapist and client collaborate to choose the format and pace that suit the client’s goals and daily life.
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
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Alaska, Georgia
- Languages
- English
Next step
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