About Kelly
Kelly Harper is a licensed clinical social worker in Louisiana with 22 years of experience. She brings steady, practical support to people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, anger, or depression. Kelly believes clients know their own stories and builds on their strengths to help them move forward.
She offers straightforward help for parenting challenges and relationship strain. She also assists with grief, trauma and abuse, ADHD, and coping with major life changes.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on small, achievable steps rather than jargon or long lectures. Kelly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy to keep conversations goal-oriented and useful. That means looking at patterns that keep problems going and trying strategies that can change day-to-day life.
She encourages clients to test simple ideas between sessions and report back on what works. People turn to her for help with workplace stress, compassion fatigue, and issues around caregiving or aging. She also supports those dealing with blended family concerns, divorce and separation, and fatherhood or women's issues.
Kelly respects individual pace and priorities during the work together. Her approach is collaborative and practical. Sessions aim to leave people with clearer choices and doable tools.
Kelly helps clients track progress, adjust plans, and build confidence as they make changes.
How Kelly’s Approaches Work Online
Kelly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a practical method that helps people spot unhelpful thinking and change behaviors that feed anxiety or low mood. It breaks problems into manageable pieces and tests new ways of acting or thinking to see what helps.She also draws on Solution-Focused Therapy, which centers on goals and what’s already working. This approach highlights small, immediate steps clients can try to move toward their preferred future rather than rehashing every problem in detail.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. If something isn’t working, she adjusts the plan together with the client so sessions stay useful and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different schedules and needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat supports quick check-ins, and messaging suits brief updates or daily tracking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and try approaches without major travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English