About Chelsey
Chelsey Flohe welcomes people who are ready to make change. She writes plainly and directly, and aims to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and life transitions. Chelsey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW - with more than 22 years of experience and a background that includes hospital and military settings.
Chelsey approaches therapy as a partnership. She listens for what matters most and helps clients set practical goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on everyday coping skills, clearer thinking about problems, and small steps that move a person forward. She will also challenge unhelpful patterns when needed so progress can happen. Her experience includes work with people facing chronic illness, caregiving strain, end-of-life concerns, and medical systems.
That background informs how she talks about health, access to care, and social factors that affect well-being. She also brings experience from military and first responder contexts. Chelsey uses a range of approaches, including cognitive behavioral tools, motivational interviewing, solution-focused work, and trauma-informed methods.
She adapts these tools to fit each person’s needs rather than applying one fixed method. People can expect direct, compassionate conversations that balance support with practical strategies. Chelsey practices in Virginia and aims to help people regain more control and calm in daily life.
If you want steady guidance through a hard time, she helps map the steps forward.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it breaks big problems into clear, manageable steps.Motivational Interviewing focuses on what matters to the person and boosts readiness for change. It is a short-term, respectful way to find motivation for steps like improving health habits or making life adjustments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Chelsey will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That choice can change as work progresses and new priorities emerge.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation without travel. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for shorter check-ins and written reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while using approaches like CBT and motivational interviewing in ways that fit daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, California
- Languages
- English