About Kelley
Kelley Tubbs is a licensed clinical social worker who centers sessions on the person in front of him. He uses straightforward talk and practical tools to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and mood struggles. Kelley draws on 17 years of experience across personal and government settings to offer steady, task-focused support.
He focuses on helping people develop coping strategies for life changes, anger, grief, and relationship concerns. He also supports folks facing issues related to bipolar mood patterns, post-traumatic stress, and self-esteem.
Background and approach
Kelley pays attention to how daily routines, work, and past events affect current wellbeing. In sessions he mixes client-centered skills with cognitive-behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices. That means listening closely, learning what matters to each person, and teaching simple exercises to shift thinking and reduce distress.
He also uses narrative and solution-focused methods to help people make concrete plans and rewrite unhelpful stories about themselves. Kelley’s work includes assessment, individual therapy, group sessions, and community outreach. He has experience with first responder and veteran concerns and with issues like infidelity, guilt, and workplace stress.
He aims to make the therapy process understandable and manageable for people who feel overwhelmed. Kelley practices in Oklahoma and offers sessions that fit modern schedules, including video, phone, chat, and text options. He encourages people to start small - name a problem, try one change, and see what shifts over time.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Kelley often blends client-centered work with cognitive-behavioral techniques and mindfulness exercises when meeting online. Client-centered work focuses on listening and helping people identify what matters most to them; it helps people feel heard and clear about goals. Cognitive-behavioral work looks at thought patterns and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, which can help with anxiety, depression, and anger. Mindfulness therapy introduces simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and improve emotional regulation.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Kelley will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and the problems they want to solve. Together they try methods and adjust the plan based on what feels most useful and doable in day-to-day life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit care into busy lives. Video is well suited for conversations that benefit from face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging can work for short check-ins or between-session support. These choices offer flexibility for working, caregiving, or when a shorter check-in is most helpful.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English