About Kelly
Kelly Fischer is a licensed mental health counselor in Indiana with 26 years of experience. She focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and life transitions. Her approach is practical and straightforward, and she aims to make sessions feel approachable for worried parents and busy people.
Kelly has worked in many settings over her career, including outpatient therapy, residential care, and forensic environments. She has experience with clients who present with autism or cognitive delays and with a range of concerns such as parenting challenges, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and mood disorders.
Background and approach
That background helps her adapt methods to different needs. Her style is warm, interactive, and respectful. She involves people in decisions about their care and sets clear, shared goals for therapy.
Sessions focus on skills people can use between meetings to manage emotions and handle everyday problems. Kelly uses client-centered work alongside cognitive behavioral and mindfulness techniques. She also draws on solution-focused ideas to identify steps people can take right away.
Treatment is tailored to what each person finds most helpful. Practical matters are part of the conversation too. Kelly offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time and pricing varies by location and therapist availability.
How Kelly's Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience and values. The therapist listens closely, asks questions, and helps people clarify what matters to them so they can set their own goals. This approach is useful for those coping with life changes, grief, or issues around parenting and self-esteem.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions include practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and build new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and obsessive thoughts. Mindfulness therapy adds simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve coping with stress and chronic pain.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kelly will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they decide what to try and regularly review progress to adjust the plan as needed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let the conversation feel face-to-face, phone sessions can fit into a work break, and live chat or text-based messaging supports quick check-ins or ongoing written reflection. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy family and work schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Intellectual disability
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Visually impaired
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English