About Kelly
Kelly Gulat is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with 11 years of counseling experience. She focuses on helping people sort through stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, and identity concerns. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth and aimed at helping clients move toward clearer goals and better daily functioning.
Kelly sees each person as a whole individual with many life areas that matter. She listens for how relationships, work, health, and values interact with symptoms.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and collaborative, with attention to what the client needs right now and next steps that fit their life. Her work draws on client-centered ideas that prioritize the person’s perspective. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Dialectical behavior strategies add skills for managing emotion and improving relationships when feelings feel overwhelming. Kelly pays attention to identity topics such as personal and gender identity, cultural background, and LGBTQ matters. She also supports people facing parenting stress, caregiving strain, chronic illness, career shifts, and compassion fatigue.
Sleep problems and intimacy-related concerns are included in her scope of focus. Therapy with Kelly is meant to feel like a partnership. She helps clients set realistic goals, practice new skills between sessions, and reflect on progress.
People typically find the work practical, steady, and respectful of their life context.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Kelly uses client-centered therapy to center the person's goals and perspective. That means the therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps the client shape goals and priorities. This approach supports work on identity, communication, and self-esteem concerns.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying thinking and behavior patterns that contribute to distress and practicing new responses. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and ADHD-related routines. Dialectical behavior therapy techniques are used to teach concrete emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills when feelings feel intense.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try methods, and adjust based on how the client responds. Goals, preferences, and daily life obligations all help guide which tools are emphasized.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face when visual cues help. Phone sessions can be a quicker check-in or work better with lower bandwidth. Live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins, written reflection, or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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