Dr. Michele Kelly, LCSW

Dr. Michele Kelly is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Louisiana with 15 years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, grief, parenting, self-esteem, coping with life changes, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, eating issues, career concerns, bipolar disorder, depression, coaching, and ADHD. She also addresses adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, blended family concerns, caregiver stress, communication problems, control issues, disaster-related adjustment, divorce and separation, domestic violence, family of origin problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, immigration issues, and isolation or loneliness.

Clients usually come with specific transitions or strains in their daily lives. Michele helps people talk through those transitions and build practical coping tools. She works with teens and adults who are handling school, work, parenting, moves, relationship changes, loss, or immigration-related adjustment.

Her approach draws on several evidence-based methods. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Mindfulness Therapy, selecting what fits after an initial assessment. Sessions focus on concrete skills like emotional regulation, problem solving, and values-based decision making.

Michele emphasizes practical steps that fit into everyday life. She helps people strengthen coping strategies and improve communication. She aims to make therapy useful between sessions through small, achievable practice tasks.

The first conversations are assessment-focused and collaborative. From there she and the client pick approaches and set short-term goals. For those coming from different places or cultures she integrates practical concerns like family expectations, work demands, and major life changes into treatment planning.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions