About Kelly
Kelly Brignoni is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by addressing anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, trauma, and low self-esteem.
Background and approach
Her work centers on practical steps people can use day to day to feel steadier and more connected. Kelly creates a calm, faith-informed space for clients to talk through painful memories and current stressors.
She listens for patterns that keep problems repeating, then helps clients try new ways of responding. Sessions are straightforward and geared toward real-life changes rather than abstract talk.
She often combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Narrative Therapy techniques to match what each person needs. That can mean learning skills to manage intense emotions, practicing values-based choices, or reworking the stories people tell about themselves.
The methods are selected to fit the problem and the person. Kelly has worked with people facing a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, addiction, divorce and separation, codependency, and communication problems.
She also supports those dealing with aging issues, attachment struggles, and the aftereffects of disaster or loss. People who choose Kelly usually want clear tools and steady support while they make changes.
She helps set small goals, track progress, and adjust the plan when needed. To begin, prospective clients complete an intake process and schedule sessions to see if the approach feels like a good match.
How ACT, DBT, and Narrative Therapy work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values. Online ACT sessions often include simple exercises and homework to try between meetings, useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Dialectical Behavior Therapy focuses on practical skills for handling intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness. In remote sessions DBT skills can be taught and practiced in real time, helping with emotional ups and downs and relationship conflicts.
Narrative Therapy invites people to reframe the stories they tell about themselves so those stories no longer limit them. Working online, clients can reflect on past patterns and try out alternative narratives that support healthier choices.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan as work progresses. Clients and therapist review what helps and change course when needed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflections between meetings. These options make scheduling more flexible and help people fit therapy into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English