About Michele
Dr. Michele Kelly is a licensed social worker in Louisiana who focuses on helping people through major life changes. She works with teens and adults who are feeling stressed, anxious, or unsure about transitions.
Her style is practical and straightforward. She aims to make sessions feel usable for everyday life. She draws on fifteen years listed experience and a range of therapy approaches to fit each person’s needs.
After an initial assessment she and the client choose methods that match goals and preferences.
Background and approach
Sessions often center on building coping skills, problem solving, and small steps that change daily routines. Common concerns she supports include grief, parenting challenges, low self esteem, relationship and family problems, trauma and abuse, eating issues, career shifts, bipolar and depression symptoms, ADHD, and life-stage transitions.
Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, blended family matters, caregiver stress, aging and geriatric issues, immigration-related adjustment, and isolation or loneliness. Her approach mixes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered methods, and mindfulness techniques. That variety makes it easier to tailor work to individual strengths and needs.
Clients can expect practical tools they can use between sessions. Dr. Kelly offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
She encourages people to reach out with questions and to begin by describing what feels most pressing so they can set clear, achievable goals together.
Common approaches used in online sessions
Dr. Kelly often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people accept difficult feelings and clarify what matters most to them; this approach supports making small, values-based changes despite uncomfortable emotions. She also works with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and practice new behaviors that reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. Both approaches are practical and are used to address stress, mood shifts, and problems with coping.Finding the right method is a collaborative process. During the first sessions she will assess concerns and discuss options with each person. Together they choose approaches that fit the client’s goals, learning style, and daily life. Adjustments are made over time based on what works in practice.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited local options. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation and skill coaching. Phone sessions can work well when video is not possible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, questions between sessions, or when someone prefers written communication. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care while fitting therapy into real life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi
- Languages
- English