Kelly Wooldridge, LCSW

Kelly Wooldridge is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Nevada with 30 years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, depression, and midlife concerns. Kelly aims to help people who feel stuck or overwhelmed by life changes find clearer direction and more steady coping. Kelly uses straightforward, practical conversation to tailor a plan to each person. She draws on approaches like acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice patterns, try new behaviors, and build skills that reduce distress. She also uses attachment-based ideas when relationships and family history shape how someone feels. Her background includes long work with people facing grief, family-related stressors, and addiction challenges. She has supported individuals through separation, adoption and foster care issues, and problems tied to family of origin. That experience shapes how she listens for recurring themes and safety concerns. Sessions focus on concrete steps and manageable practice between meetings. Kelly helps people name what matters to them, sort out practical options, and practice skills that improve communication and emotion regulation. She pays attention to how attachment and communication patterns affect close relationships. Kelly encourages small, steady changes rather than quick fixes. She invites clients to try new ways of coping, reflect on what works, and adjust the plan as needed. Her style is calm, direct, and collaborative, aimed at helping people recover balance and move toward goals.

Therapeutic approaches and doing therapy online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes clarifying what matters to you and taking committed steps toward those values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. It often helps people who feel stuck by connecting action to personal priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with new behaviors and experiments; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress that come from repetitive thinking. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and helps people change repetitive ways of relating that cause pain.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kelly collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She adjusts the plan if something does not feel helpful so people can try different tools and keep what works.

Confirm current session options before booking since formats are not specified in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also lets people use tools like worksheets and in-session coaching to practice skills between meetings. The focus is on practical change and building habits that transfer into daily life.