About Kelly
Kelly Shelton is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Florida. She brings 14 years of experience supporting people through relationship problems, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and major life changes. Kelly focuses on clear, practical conversations.
She listens first, then helps people name what feels hardest. Sessions aim to build workable skills for day-to-day life and to shift damaging patterns that keep coming back. She adapts the pace and focus to each person.
Background and approach
That can mean working on communication, processing past hurts, or learning tools to manage intense emotions. Kelly also addresses issues like abandonment, attachment struggles, codependency, and problems that arise from family of origin dynamics. Her approach includes techniques from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, emotionally-focused therapy, and mindfulness.
Those methods are used to help with things such as dissociation, impulsivity, guilt and shame, and the fallout from infidelity or divorce. Kelly values respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every session. She works with people who want straightforward support and practical change.
Getting started is often the hardest part, and she helps people take that first step toward feeling steadier.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy centers the person -it means the therapist follows your concerns and priorities while offering support and reflection. This approach helps when someone needs a listening space and gentle guidance to clarify goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical skills for changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, useful for anxiety, low self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. It is often used when impulsivity, emotional overwhelm, or relationship patterns create repeated conflict.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be a lower-bandwidth option, chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflections between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using approaches that are goal-focused and skills based.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English