Kelly Walsh, LISW

Kelly Walsh is a licensed independent social worker (LISW) with 31 years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and related life changes. She welcomes a wide range of concerns including relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, addiction, ADHD, and challenges tied to identity such as LGBT matters. Kelly also lists traumatic brain injury among her focus areas and offers help navigating its emotional impacts.

Her style is warm and straightforward. Kelly listens first and helps people name what matters most to them. Sessions focus on practical steps, communication skills, and coping tools that fit daily life. She draws on mindfulness and cognitive strategies to reduce unhelpful thinking and ease emotional intensity.

Kelly uses attachment-based and client-centered ideas to help people understand patterns in relationships. She also uses techniques from dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Together these approaches aim to build skills and a clearer sense of direction.

Clients can expect a collaborative process where goals are set together and progress is reviewed regularly. Kelly frames therapy as a mix of talk, skill practice, and real-world tasks between meetings. Her approach is intended to be flexible to each person’s situation and pace.

Based in Ohio, Kelly provides care in English and accepts international clients. She holds an Ohio LISW credential and brings three decades of clinical experience to each therapeutic relationship.

How Kelly’s approaches translate to online therapy

Kelly draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and build steady routines. CBT involves identifying thought patterns that cause anxiety or depression and testing new ways of thinking. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase focus, which can help with stress, sleep, and emotional ups and downs.

She also uses attachment-based ideas to explore how early relationship patterns affect current connections and intimacy. That work helps people name familiar interaction styles and practice different ways of relating in everyday life. Choosing the right mix of methods is a collaborative process; Kelly will work with clients to match techniques to their goals and preferences as therapy progresses.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when that suits someone’s routine. Because the listing does not specify which session formats are offered, confirm available options before booking. Kelly’s approaches translate well to remote work when the focus is on skills practice, thought work, and planning real-world steps between meetings.