About Kelly
Kelly Whitmire is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Georgia with 24 years of experience. She focuses on helping parents, young adults, and individuals facing stress, anxiety, and relationship struggles. Kelly is approachable and direct, and she aims to make therapy feel manageable for busy people.
Kelly often begins with a client-centered approach. That means she listens first and follows the person's lead to understand what matters most.
Background and approach
She then blends techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused therapy to help people break large problems into small, workable steps. Her background includes long-term work with foster care and adoption concerns, blended family challenges, and family-of-origin issues. She has guided people through trauma, neglect, and abuse and supports those coping with changes related to parenting and caregiving.
Kelly also helps individuals dealing with addiction, anger, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. Parents who feel overwhelmed by child or teen behavior will find straightforward tools and communication strategies in her sessions. Young adults get help making plans, managing stress, and building daily routines that support goals.
People with ADHD can work on practical strategies for organization, focus, and self-management within the therapy relationship. Sessions emphasize a respectful, nonjudgmental tone. Kelly works with clients to set realistic goals, try specific exercises between meetings, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
She values practical change and steady support over quick fixes.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Kelly often uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening and creating space for each person to name what matters. This approach helps when someone needs empathy, validation, and a chance to work through feelings before trying specific strategies.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT offers concrete exercises and small behavioral experiments that can reduce anxiety, improve mood, and help with focus and organization for people with ADHD.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about goals, daily challenges, and preferences and then recommend methods to try. Sessions are collaborative, with plans adjusted based on what helps most in real life.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls let people keep face-to-face contact when that matters. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good option for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging support quick reflections, coaching-style prompts, or ongoing check-ins between longer sessions. These options help clients maintain consistency and practice new skills in everyday settings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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