About Kelly
Kelly Gilmer is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with six years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship strain, family conflict, parenting challenges, and intimacy-related concerns. Kelly aims to treat each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion while tailoring sessions to individual needs.
Her approach centers on practical conversation and clear goals. She listens first, then works with clients to map small steps forward.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize understanding patterns that get in the way and trying new strategies that fit daily life. Kelly draws on several therapy styles to meet different needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s experience and builds on their strengths. She also uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing techniques to support focus, self-awareness, and motivation for change.
These tools are blended with an emphasis on real-world problem solving, such as improving communication, coping with loss, or navigating separation and divorce. People who want a respectful, practical, and collaborative counselor may find this approach helpful. The goal is steady progress that fits the client’s life and priorities.
How Kelly’s Approaches Work Online
Kelly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy to guide online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to ease anxiety, depression, and stress. Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person’s experience, with the therapist listening closely and helping the client find their own solutions.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when emotion regulation and communication are priorities. DBT teaches practical skills for handling intense feelings and improving interactions with others, which can help in relationship and parenting challenges.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Kelly will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then suggest methods that match those needs. The plan can shift as progress is made, so the approach stays useful and realistic.
Please confirm which session formats are available before booking, as specific online options are not listed here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter focused check-ins when that fits better into a workday.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English