About Kelly
Kelly Peters is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, and relationship strain. She brings a calm, respectful presence and works collaboratively with each person to set realistic goals. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at helping clients make manageable changes in everyday life.
With 35 years of experience, Kelly draws from several approaches to fit a person’s needs. She uses somatic-informed work to help people notice how the body holds stress and trauma.
Background and approach
She also employs Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to build new ways of coping and thinking. Sessions are conversational and tailored. Kelly listens for what matters most and then suggests exercises, skills, or reflective practices you can try between meetings.
She also brings experience addressing addiction, codependency, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and family of origin concerns. Her background includes clinical work across a range of settings and post-graduate certificates in areas such as breathwork and addictions-focused work. Clients can expect a therapist who balances empathy with clear, practical steps toward change.
Kelly practices in Illinois as an LCPC, license number IL LCPC 180.002099. She conducts sessions in English and offers multiple online formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. To begin, a simple matching questionnaire helps connect people to scheduling options.
How somatic and acceptance-based approaches translate online
Somatic-informed work helps people notice how stress and strong emotions show up in the body. Online sessions can include guided breathing, grounding exercises, and attention to body sensations to reduce tension and increase awareness. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed steps toward them while learning to live with uncomfortable feelings.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Kelly collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. She adapts exercises and pacing so the work feels manageable and relevant to daily life.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for exercises and feedback. Phone sessions can be used for check-ins or when video is not possible. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to share short updates, try brief interventions, and keep momentum between meetings. These options help people access consistent support while fitting therapy into a busy schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English