About Cira
Cira Kelley is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, and life transitions. She focuses on practical steps that make daily life easier and on strengthening how people relate to themselves and others. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at making therapy feel useful from the first session.
Clients often come for help with self-esteem, communication problems, and relationship strain. Cira also addresses ADHD-related challenges, grief, and the lasting effects of trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how family history and attachment patterns shape current struggles. Her work combines clear tools and reflective conversation. Cognitive behavioral ideas are used to spot unhelpful thinking and test small behavior changes.
Attachment-based and emotionally focused elements guide conversations about closeness, trust, and repair in important relationships. Cira brings a calm, steady presence and a focus on collaboration. She and a client set goals together and track what’s working between sessions.
Mindfulness practices are offered when they fit the client’s needs and pace. She practices in New York as an LCSW and draws on a long history of clinical work to tailor plans to each person’s life. The emphasis is on practical change - better sleep, clearer communication, fewer overwhelm moments - rather than jargon or labels.
How attachment work and CBT translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns of closeness and trust. In sessions this means talking about how past relationships shape current needs and practicing small repair steps to feel safer in close relationships. This approach can help with family of origin issues, abandonment concerns, and struggles with intimacy.Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and actions that keep problems going. Sessions include identifying unhelpful thinking, testing new behaviors, and building routines that reduce anxiety and depression. CBT techniques are useful for stress, ADHD-related challenges, and managing overwhelm day to day.
Finding the right approach is a team decision. The therapist will discuss goals, try different techniques, and adjust plans based on what helps most. Clients are invited to offer feedback so work stays focused and practical rather than purely theoretical.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video is good for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits shorter check-ins or quick coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep regular appointments, fit therapy into a busy life, and try different formats to see what works best.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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