About Kelley
Kelley Halter is a licensed clinical mental health counselor with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood struggles, and life changes. She practices in New Hampshire and creates a calm, accepting space where clients can speak honestly about hard things. Kelley focuses on practical work that helps people feel steadier day to day.
Sessions often include talking through patterns, building coping skills, and noticing how the body reacts to stress.
Background and approach
She includes somatic ideas alongside talking therapies to address how emotions show up physically. Her work is client-centered. That means sessions are shaped around each person's needs, not a fixed plan.
She also draws on cognitive behavioral tools to help change unhelpful thoughts and dialectical strategies to support emotion regulation when feelings run high. Kelley has supported people dealing with trauma and abuse, parenting and adoption-related concerns, grief, relationship struggles, and identity questions. She also works with mood disorders, ADHD, chronic health challenges, and issues like body image or caregiver stress.
In the room she aims to help people rebuild self-worth and find realistic ways to cope. The pace and focus change to fit what a person needs in the moment. Many clients come away with clearer choices and tools to manage strong emotions.
Clients meet by phone, video, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and scheduling follows therapist availability and the platform's booking process.
How her approaches translate to online work
Somatic-informed work pays attention to the body's signals as well as thoughts. Online sessions can include simple body awareness, grounding exercises, and noticing breath or tension to help reduce physical stress reactions. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on understanding relationship patterns and how early bonds shape reactions; this helps with communication, trust, and closeness concerns in everyday life. Client-Centered Therapy creates a nonjudgmental space where the client sets the pace and topics while the therapist reflects and supports growth.Kelley treats finding the right way of working as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals, try approaches that match those aims, and adjust if something does not feel helpful. The aim is to land on methods that fit a person's needs and preferences rather than push a single model.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work face to face from home. Phone sessions remove video when that feels better. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain consistency while juggling work, family, or health needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New Hampshire
- Languages
- English