About Kelly
Kelly Boyle is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor practicing in Washington with 20 years of experience. She focuses on meeting people where they are and helping them find clearer paths through stress, anxiety, depression, and addictive behaviors. She also supports people navigating LGBT concerns, gender dysphoria, HIV/AIDS matters, and challenges like hoarding or immigration-related stress.
She uses straightforward, respectful conversation to understand each person's situation. Sessions are shaped around the client's goals and pace rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Background and approach
Kelly emphasizes building trust and steady progress over quick fixes. Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships affect emotions, client-centered work that follows the person's lead, and cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. These methods are used in everyday language and practical steps people can try between sessions.
Kelly pays attention to the effects of trauma and past hurts and helps people develop skills for managing anxiety and low self-esteem. She also offers support around non-traditional relationship styles such as polyamory and non-monogamy, and practical help for issues tied to immigration or chronic health concerns.
People who prefer clear talk, step-by-step tools, and a respectful, nonjudgmental space tend to do well with her. The work is collaborative: goals are set together and adjusted as progress is made.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships shape feelings and safety in close connections. Online sessions can use this approach to notice patterns in relationship thinking and to practice new ways of relating during conversations. Client-centered therapy focuses on following the person's lead, offering empathy and acceptance while the client decides what to address. This fits well with chat or video formats because the therapist mirrors concerns and supports self-directed goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to shift them. CBT tools like thought records or behavioral experiments transfer easily to video or text and can be reviewed together in session.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match current needs, goals, and personal preferences. That plan can change over time as progress is made and circumstances shift.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when desired. Phone sessions work when lower bandwidth or less screen time is helpful. Live chat or text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, ongoing guidance, or people who prefer typing. These options make scheduling more flexible and let therapy fit around work, caregiving, or travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Depression
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English