About Cira
Cira Kelley is a New York-based licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage everyday stress and emotional challenges. She focuses on practical steps for anxiety, low self-esteem, and relationship struggles so clients can feel steadier in daily life. She combines clear listening with straightforward strategies.
Sessions often include looking at patterns in relationships, noticing thoughts that increase worry, and practicing small changes that build confidence. Cira aims to make therapy feel useful from the start, with goals set together.
Background and approach
Over 25 years of practice inform her work. That experience includes supporting people through grief, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, ADHD-related concerns, and caregiver stress. She also helps with issues tied to adoption, attachment, blended family situations, and family of origin wounds.
Cira draws on several approaches to match each person’s needs. She uses attachment-focused ideas to untangle relationship patterns, client-centered listening to follow a person’s priorities, and cognitive tools to shift troubling thoughts. Mindfulness and emotionally focused methods appear when calming the body and strengthening intimacy are needed.
Therapy is available via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions work on a subscription basis that can be canceled at any time. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist’s availability.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online work can help people spot repeated dynamics and try new ways of relating in their everyday life. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s own goals and pace, with the therapist following what matters most to the client and offering reflective listening to build insight.Finding the right approach is a collaborative effort. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit the person’s needs, and adjust as progress and preferences become clearer. Clients and the therapist check in together about what feels helpful and what should change.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared visual cues. Phone sessions can be lighter on bandwidth and work well when being on camera feels hard. Live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins, writing through emotions, or brief coaching between longer sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English