Works with
How Kelly works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Years in practice
- 35
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Kelly
Kelly Peters is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 35 years of experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, anger, addiction, grief, and relationship struggles. Her style is warm and respectful, and she aims to build practical skills people can use day to day.
Kelly draws on a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change harmful thought and behavior patterns.
Background and approach
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take committed action. Emotionally-Focused Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy inform her work when emotions and relationships feel overwhelming. Sessions are collaborative and goal oriented.
Kelly listens first, then helps set small, concrete steps toward change. She emphasizes skills you can practice between sessions, like emotion regulation, communication techniques, and coping tools for anger or cravings. Her background includes long experience with addiction, trauma and abuse, depression, and parenting-related stress.
She has also worked on career development, employee assistance programs, crisis intervention, and critical incident debriefing. The practice aims to meet each person where they are and adjust the plan as progress is made. Kelly holds an IL LCPC, which is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois.
She offers sessions in English and provides several remote formats to fit different needs. If someone is ready to start, she guides them through a clear matching and scheduling process.
What Kelly works with
Everything Kelly lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Kelly's practice.
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Kelly lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, anger, and life transitions where someone wants clearer direction.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and shifting behavior in small steps. This approach is often used for stress, depression, and patterns that maintain anxiety or anger.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people name and process strong feelings and improve how they relate to others. It can be helpful when emotions drive conflict or when connection matters most.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through goals, try methods that make sense, and adjust plans based on what helps. Clients and the therapist decide together which tools to prioritize for managing anger, grief, addiction, or relationship struggles.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat or text fits shorter check-ins or hands-on coaching, and messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into busy lives.
Questions people ask about Kelly
What concerns does Kelly help with?
She works with a wide range of issues including anger, addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy-related problems, and caregiving or compassion fatigue.
How would you describe her therapy approach?
Her approach blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with client-centered and emotionally-focused work. Sessions focus on practical skills, emotion work, and values-based steps.
What is her professional background?
She has 35 years of clinical experience and has worked in settings that include career development, employee assistance programs, crisis intervention, and critical incident debriefing.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds an IL LCPC, which stands for Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois, and practices from Illinois.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
In what formats are sessions offered?
Kelly offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and communication preferences.
How are costs and billing handled?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions are delivered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin work?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire, then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.