About Kelly
Kelly Ready is an AASW social worker with 15 years of practical experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, trauma, grief and parenting concerns. She is a parent of three and understands how busy home life can make it hard to ask for help. Kelly speaks plainly and aims to make each session feel manageable and down-to-earth.
Kelly uses a mix of body-focused and talking approaches to help people feel steadier in day-to-day life.
Background and approach
She draws on Somatic techniques to notice how stress shows up in the body, and on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to build useful skills. Sessions are shaped around what the person needs, not a one-size-fits-all plan. She works with issues such as relationships, intimacy-related concerns, addiction, depression and sleep difficulties.
Kelly also supports people facing caring responsibilities, chronic illness, body image and identity questions including LGBT matters. She can help with ADHD-related challenges and the emotional impact of adoption and abandonment. Kelly aims for a warm, respectful tone and uses practical exercises and simple reflections in sessions.
She will help clients set small, realistic goals and practise new ways of responding between meetings. The focus is on steady progress rather than quick fixes. Based in Australia, Kelly offers sessions via video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging.
Starting is straightforward: a short questionnaire helps match priorities and then clients schedule sessions that fit their life.
How Somatic and Acceptance-based Work Translate Online
Kelly blends Somatic work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-based ideas to support emotional and physical regulation. Somatic work helps people notice where tension lives in the body and use simple grounding or movement practices to reduce overwhelm; it can be useful for stress, trauma responses and chronic pain. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed by them, then clarifying values and taking small steps that matter. Attachment-based approaches look at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and help people build safer ways of relating.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Kelly will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and together decide which methods to try. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that fits day-to-day life and personal comfort levels.
Online therapy with Kelly can be done by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around family and work, and let people practise techniques in the settings where they live. The range of formats also means people can choose the level of verbal or written interaction that feels best for them.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English