Kelly Sheets is a licensed professional counselor in Tennessee with eight years of counseling experience.
01About Kelly
Kelly Sheets is a licensed professional counselor in Tennessee with eight years of counseling experience. She takes a direct, conversational approach that helps people talk through distressing experiences and find practical ways to manage day-to-day life. She focuses on addiction, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression, and stress.
Kelly also works with concerns such as self-esteem, anger, eating issues, relationship strain, and compassion fatigue. Her background includes work in residential substance use treatment where co-occurring issues were common.
Background and approach
Kelly blends existential ideas with practical tools. She helps people name what matters to them, confront painful memories, and build routines that support recovery. She also uses cognitive and behavioral strategies to change unhelpful patterns and emotion regulation skills when feelings become overwhelming.
Her work often addresses attachment and abandonment worries, codependency, communication problems, dissociation, and the emotional fallout of domestic violence. She pays attention to how personality patterns and social influences shape behavior, and she helps people see those patterns more clearly. Sessions are conversational and collaborative.
Kelly aims to be a sounding board while guiding people toward goals they choose. She supports people through big life changes, grief, and the day-to-day challenges that follow trauma or addiction.
02Credentials
- LPC (Tennessee)
- License 5475 · expires April 2028
- LPC (Michigan)
- License 6401224045 · expires May 2027
- NPI
- 1780254417 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Kelly lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Eating disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
Methods Kelly names
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
These are the methods Kelly names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Kelly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and to clarify personal values that guide daily choices. This approach can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT is practical and skill-focused, often involving simple exercises between sessions to reduce symptoms and build new habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kelly will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust methods as needed. The process is collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and situations. Video lets people use visual cues during deeper conversations, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text work well for brief check-ins and ongoing encouragement. These options make it easier to maintain steady progress while balancing work, family, and other commitments.
05Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does Kelly address?
She works with addiction, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression, stress, and related concerns like anger, self-esteem, and eating issues.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is conversational and collaborative, combining existential ideas with practical strategies from cognitive and behavioral approaches.
What experience does she bring to sessions?
Kelly has eight years of counseling experience and has spent much time in residential substance use treatment working with co-occurring issues.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
She is a licensed professional counselor with Tennessee and Michigan LPC credentials and practices in Tennessee.
Which languages are offered for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for ongoing work and check-ins.
How does cost and billing work?
Costs vary with location and scheduling; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Kelly?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.
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