About Kerrie
Kerrie Pelan is a licensed clinical social worker in New York who uses practical, goal-focused methods to help people manage stress and anxiety. She draws on straightforward tools and short-term strategies to help clients feel more able to face daily pressures. Kerrie values a collaborative approach and treats each person as the expert on their own life.
She commonly helps people dealing with low self-esteem, depression, grief, and the fallout of trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
Kerrie also supports people navigating parenting challenges, adoption and foster care concerns, and caregiver stress. Relationship struggles, communication problems, and workplace issues are frequent topics in her work. Kerrie uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and change patterns that keep people stuck.
She also incorporates Mindfulness Therapy to help clients notice emotions without getting overwhelmed. Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy are used to build momentum and set practical, achievable goals. With three years of professional experience, Kerrie brings a compassionate, down-to-earth style to sessions.
She aims to make therapy feel useful from the start. Clients can expect clear steps, homework when helpful, and conversations that focus on what matters most to them. She practices in New York and works in English.
Kerrie recognizes that getting started can feel hard, and she focuses on pacing the work so people feel supported throughout the process.
Online approaches that focus on clear change
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood. It uses simple exercises and short tasks to test new ways of coping. Mindfulness Therapy teaches basic awareness skills so difficult feelings can be noticed without taking over, which can help with stress, rumination, and anger.Kerrie treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about problems, goals, and preferences before deciding which methods to try. That plan can change as work proceeds, and she checks in to make sure techniques are helpful and realistic.
Online therapy here is offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow fuller conversation and nonverbal cues, phone work can fit a short break or low bandwidth, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. Those options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, and other demands, while keeping the focus on practical progress and usable skills.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English