About Kelly
Kelly Whitmire is a licensed clinical social worker in Georgia with 24 years of experience. She focuses on helping parents, young adults, and individuals facing family-related challenges. Her approach is warm and practical, aimed at helping people find clearer footing during stressful times.
Kelly often begins from a client-centered stance. She listens first, then helps people identify what matters most to them. From there she may use tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused methods to build simple, practical steps forward.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in foster care, adoption, and services for people affected by neglect and abuse. She has helped parents manage the strains of raising children and teens, and she offers support for blended family issues and communication problems. Caregiver stress and compassion fatigue are also areas she addresses.
Kelly helps with common struggles such as anxiety, depression, anger, low self-esteem, and addiction-related concerns. She also coaches people through life changes and supports those managing ADHD symptoms in daily life. Her style is steady, respectful, and goal-oriented.
Sessions focus on clear problem-solving and practical coping skills. Kelly aims to help people develop plans they can try between sessions. She values collaboration and keeps the work focused on what will make a real difference for each person.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Kelly commonly uses a client-centered approach, which means she starts by listening carefully and shaping the work around each person’s priorities. This style helps people feel heard and lays the groundwork for practical change.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, a method that looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT helps when anxiety, depression, or unhelpful habits get in the way by offering specific strategies to test and change patterns. Solution-focused techniques are used to set clear, short-term goals and identify small steps a person can use right away to see progress.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Kelly will talk through goals and preferences, then adapt methods based on what a person needs. The plan can shift as progress is made and new priorities appear.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick updates, brief coaching, or when someone prefers writing over speaking. These options make it simpler to fit sessions into busy family schedules or workdays, while still using the same therapeutic approaches discussed above.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English