Luretha Kelly, LICSW, LCSW

Luretha Kelly is a licensed clinical social worker in Mississippi and the District of Columbia with 16 years of experience. She focuses on common, everyday problems like anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, anger, and struggles with self-esteem. She also helps people facing parenting stress, relationship and intimacy concerns, career changes, addiction issues, and coping with life transitions.

Kelly uses straightforward, skills-based methods in sessions. She draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, mindfulness techniques, and motivational interviewing. In practice this looks like naming patterns that get in the way, trying small changes, and building simple routines that help day-to-day functioning.

Clients can expect a practical focus: talking through specific problems, learning tools to manage intense emotions, and setting realistic short-term goals. She works with issues that often come together, for example trauma plus sleep problems, or caregiving stress plus low mood. Sessions aim to reduce the immediate overwhelm and increase the ability to handle everyday demands.

Kelly emphasizes strengths and collaboration. She treats the person in front of her as the expert on their life and uses that knowledge to plan steps forward. Over time sessions commonly shift from stabilizing distress to practicing new habits that support work, family, and health.

Her background spans clinical settings where she worked with a range of concerns and complex cases. She holds the LICSW and LCSW credentials and brings a practical, problem-solving orientation to therapy.

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