May Kirby is a licensed professional counselor who draws on a decade of clinical experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles.
01About May
May Kirby is a licensed professional counselor who draws on a decade of clinical experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She works with concerns like trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, self-esteem, and issues around intimacy and parenting. Her approach centers on building a strong therapeutic relationship and helping people use their strengths to face difficult moments.
May spent much of her early career in an intensive outpatient mental health setting.
Background and approach
That work gave her hands-on experience with mood disorders, bipolar presentations, panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive patterns, and complex trauma. Over time she added tools for coping with life changes, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue. She uses a mix of evidence-informed approaches to match each person’s needs.
May commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take committed action. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and Attachment-Based ideas to look at relationship patterns. Sessions are practical and conversational.
May helps clients set clear goals, try small experiments between sessions, and notice what works. She pays attention to family of origin issues, communication breakdowns, codependency, and commitment concerns when they come up. May offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
She accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English. Starting is done through an online matching process and scheduling system tailored to therapist availability.
02Credentials
- LPC (South Carolina)
- License 6507 · expires August 2027
- NPI
- 1386903680 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything May lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Family of origin issues
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Social anxiety and phobia
Methods May names
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
These are the methods May 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
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people name their values and take small, meaningful steps toward them. Online sessions can focus on identifying what matters most and building actions that fit daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to reduce symptoms like anxiety or panic. It works well over video or phone because homework and skill practice can be reviewed together. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns shape current connections and communication. This approach helps people notice interaction habits and try new ways of relating that feel safer and clearer.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. May will listen to your goals, try methods that fit your needs, and check in about what helps. Together you can adjust the balance of approaches over time so the work stays relevant and practical.
Online therapy offers flexibility and several ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation and body language cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, ongoing coaching-style support, or keeping momentum between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still working on meaningful change.
05Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does May help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, sleep and eating issues, ADHD, and related areas such as isolation, codependency, and caregiver stress.
What is her style of therapy like?
Sessions are collaborative and down-to-earth. May blends approaches like ACT, CBT, and attachment-based ideas to create practical steps and experiments you can try between sessions.
How much clinical experience does she have?
May has ten years of experience working in mental health, including time in an intensive outpatient treatment setting where she treated a broad range of mood and trauma-related concerns.
Where is she licensed and located?
May holds an LPC credential and practices out of South Carolina.
Which languages are supported and can she work across countries?
Sessions are offered in English, and she does accept international clients.
What session formats are available?
She meets by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How is payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
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