About Kellye
Kellye Laughery is a licensed marriage and family therapist who uses practical, relationship-focused methods to help people cope with life’s pressures. She draws on two decades of experience to support clients facing stress, anxiety, grief, career challenges, and shifts at home or work.
Background and approach
Kellye keeps sessions straightforward and goals clear so people can see progress one step at a time. Her work centers on how relationships and attachment shape current struggles.
She helps clients untangle communication problems, commitment worries, and family patterns that keep them stuck. When grief, divorce, or blended family issues arise, she talks through the immediate problem and the relationship patterns behind it.
Kellye blends person-focused listening with tools from cognitive behavioral techniques. That means she listens closely, then offers concrete steps to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
She also draws on emotionally-focused and Imago approaches to improve closeness and repair connection when intimacy or trust has been damaged. Over twenty years in California practice have brought experience with trauma, military-related stress, and the long-term effects of isolation or midlife shifts.
She supports people coping with post-traumatic stress, self-harm thoughts, and the fallout from natural or human-caused disasters with steady guidance and practical planning. Sessions can include coaching-style work for career transitions or skills-based coaching for parenting and life purpose.
Kellye works in English and aims to make each session a usable step toward greater stability and clearer direction.
How attachment, emotion work, and CBT fit into online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns show up now. It helps people notice repeated reactions and try new ways of connecting, which can ease conflict and loneliness.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people identify and name core emotions and then use those feelings to guide healthier interaction. It is often used when intimacy or trust has been damaged and people want clearer emotional connection.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and actions that keep problems going. It offers practical exercises and short homework tasks to reduce anxiety, lift mood, and change unhelpful habits.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist and client collaborate to decide which methods to try first based on goals, preferences, and what feels most useful in session. Adjustments are made as progress is tracked.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text allow brief reflections between sessions and can fit into busy schedules. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent across life changes.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English