About Kelsey
Kelsey Hackler is a licensed clinical social worker who uses practical, evidence-based approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and life changes. She brings 12 years of experience in mental health and focuses on helping people build coping skills and regain a sense of control. She meets each person where they are and listens without judgment.
Sessions are aimed at making small, useful changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
Kelsey emphasizes clear goals and simple tools people can use between sessions. Her work often addresses low self-esteem, depression, and anger, along with relationship and intimacy-related concerns. She also helps people facing parenting challenges, caregiver stress, and career-related strain.
Additional focuses include body image, abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, and concerns tied to kink and alternative sex culture. Kelsey draws from approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Mindfulness Therapy. She tailors techniques to fit personality, spirituality, and lifestyle so therapy feels realistic and usable.
Based in Florida, Kelsey offers sessions in English and provides a range of online formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Her practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Using ACT, CBT, and Mindfulness Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful when someone wants to feel more purposeful despite difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change patterns that cause distress. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and anger. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness, which can ease stress and rumination.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods, and adjust based on what feels helpful. Clients often try a mix of techniques and decide together which tools to keep using.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls work well for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging allow for brief check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work on goals in manageable ways.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English