About Kelly
Kelly Dambra is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida who focuses on practical, person-centered care. She brings nine years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. Kelly aims to create a calm, approachable space where people can talk through hard things and build on what already works for them.
Her sessions emphasize a collaborative relationship. She listens first, then helps set clear goals together. Techniques come from client-centered therapy and cognitive-behavioral methods, adapted to each person’s needs and pace.
Background and approach
Kelly has worked with people facing trauma, including sexual and emotional abuse, and those coping with domestic violence and complex grief. She also supports people managing mood disorders, panic attacks, addiction, and compassion fatigue. Practical skills for managing anxiety and improving communication are common parts of her work.
When relationship or intimacy issues arise, she helps individuals sort through trust, jealousy, commitment concerns, and infidelity. Parenting stress, workplace problems, and career transitions are also frequent topics she addresses with straightforward strategies. Sessions focus on small, achievable steps that match a person’s life.
Kelly uses solution-focused thinking to help people see progress quickly while also addressing deeper trauma when needed. Her goal is to help people leave therapy with clearer coping plans and more confidence in handling life’s challenges.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s experience and priorities. Sessions emphasize listening, reflecting, and building on the client’s strengths to set meaningful goals. This approach helps with anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship strain, and life transitions.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and workplace stress by breaking problems into manageable steps and practicing new patterns between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kelly will discuss goals and preferences, and then recommend techniques that match what the person hopes to change. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as progress is tracked.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, coping strategies between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting, and busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English