Kelly Wooldridge

Kelly Wooldridge is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience helping people work through stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and anger. She uses a calm, straightforward style and focuses on practical skills that people can use between sessions. Kelly aims to make therapy feel manageable for parents and individuals who are juggling busy lives.

She combines mindfulness practices with evidence-informed therapies to help people notice difficult thoughts and take steps that match their values. Sessions often include simple exercises for emotion regulation, communication, and managing overwhelming feelings. Kelly adapts the pace and tools to each person’s needs.

Her background includes long experience supporting people affected by past trauma, grief, and family-related stress. She also works with issues like adoption and foster care challenges, attachment concerns, relationship communication problems, and life transitions such as divorce or separation. Over three decades she has developed many practical techniques for reducing distress and increasing emotional flexibility.

Kelly holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, LCSW, in Nevada. She speaks English and frames treatment plans around clear goals people can recognize and track. Her approach emphasizes collaborative decision-making and steady skill-building rather than quick fixes.

If you are looking for a therapist who blends mindfulness with cognitive and behavioral tools, she can help you map out small, achievable steps. To start, be ready to describe the main concerns and what you hope to change so sessions can be tailored to your situation.

How Mindfulness, ACT, and Attachment Work Online

Mindfulness Therapy helps people notice thoughts and bodily sensations without getting swept up in them. It supports managing anxiety, stress, and emotional reactivity through simple breathing and attention exercises that can be practiced in daily life.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking action toward those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. It is useful for depression, avoidance, and helping people make steady life changes.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape expectations and patterns in current relationships. It can help with attachment issues, communication problems, and feelings tied to family of origin or adoption and foster care history.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kelly will collaborate with each person to choose which methods to emphasize based on presenting problems, goals, and what feels most helpful. This is a joint process that adjusts over time as progress is made.

Confirm current session options before booking since formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people use tools like guided mindfulness practices between sessions to reinforce learning and support steady change.