Therapist profile
Kelly Wooldridge, LCSW
Nevada
Licensed Clinical Social Worker - Anger, Family
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- CredentialsLCSW
- LicenseLCSW, Nevada / 01851-C
- NPI1932270436
- Experience30 years
- LanguagesEnglish
- LocationNevada
About
- CBT for thought patterns
- DBT emotion skills
- Attachment work
About Kelly
Kelly Wooldridge is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Nevada with 30 years of professional experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, family concerns, trauma and abuse, anger, and depression. Kelly works with adults and younger clients across many situations and backgrounds.
Her approach blends practical skills and relational work. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change thought patterns that fuel anger and anxiety. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions and for improving day-to-day coping.
Kelly also incorporates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult feelings without getting driven by them, and Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships affect current reactions. The Gottman Method appears in her work when relationship patterns and communication are central concerns.
Sessions tend to focus on clear, doable steps. Kelly talks through what’s happening, teaches concrete tools for handling strong feelings, and works on communication strategies that reduce conflict. She pays attention to family-of-origin issues, blended family challenges, and problems around commitment and control.
Over her career she has supported people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, body image, substance issues, and disruptive mood regulation problems. She asks clients to identify practical goals and then practices skills together so those goals become part of everyday life.
How sessions work
How selected approaches work for online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without being driven by them and to take actions that match their values; this can reduce reactivity and build calmer responses. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors, which is useful for anger that comes from automatic thoughts or assumptions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete emotion-regulation and distress-tolerance skills that help when feelings get intense. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kelly will collaborate with each person to decide which combination of methods fits their goals and preferences. That may mean trying a skill-based focus for a while, then shifting to attachment or relationship work if patterns around family or partners are central. Confirm current session formats before booking, as the biography does not list formats explicitly. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - shorter check-ins during a work break, audio-only options when bandwidth is limited, or video meetings when visual cues help the work. These practical choices can reduce barriers to practicing skills between sessions and keeping momentum toward calmer responses.Areas of focus
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
30+ years
Listed in
Nevada
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, family concerns, trauma and abuse, anger, and depression, plus related issues like abandonment, adoption and foster care, and communication problems.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style blends practical skills and relational work, using approaches such as CBT, DBT, ACT, attachment-focused work, and the Gottman Method to address behavior and relationship patterns.
How much experience does she have?
She has 30 years of professional work experience supporting people across a wide range of concerns and backgrounds.
What credential and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Nevada.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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