About Kelly
Kelly Gulat is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia with 11 years of clinical experience. She has worked in the mental health field for longer than that and focuses on helping people manage everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, grief, and depression.
Kelly talks through concerns about trauma and abuse, identity and gender questions, relationship and intimacy issues, and problems that affect sleep and parenting. Anger, low self-esteem, career stress, and coping with life changes are also part of her work. She lists ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue among areas she supports people with.
Her approach blends practical skills with reflective conversation. She uses client-centered methods to follow each person’s priorities. She adds cognitive behavioral techniques to notice and change thinking patterns that fuel anger or anxiety.
Kelly also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotional regulation and interpersonal effectiveness. Mindfulness strategies appear in sessions to help people notice their body and thoughts before reactions escalate. Existential ideas are used for people wrestling with meaning, values, or life transitions.
Sessions focus on concrete steps and steady problem solving. Kelly works with people on setting boundaries, improving communication, and building daily routines that support better sleep and lower reactivity. She asks practical questions and helps clients try small changes between sessions.
To begin, she guides people through an initial matching process and schedules a first session where goals and next steps are clarified.
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on what matters most to the person. Online sessions let the therapist listen and reflect on priorities, goals, and values so plans come from the client rather than a preset agenda. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. In remote sessions this often means working through examples from daily life, practicing alternative responses, and assigning brief exercises between meetings. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides concrete tools for emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness, which can be taught and rehearsed in video or phone meetings so people have step-by-step strategies when anger rises.Finding which approach fits is part of the first sessions. Kelly will work collaboratively to figure out what methods match the client’s goals and preferences. She will check in about what feels useful and adjust the plan as work progresses.
Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm the specific online options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when schedules demand it, and let people practice skills in their usual routines. The emphasis is on making therapy practical and workable for everyday life rather than on a single technique.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Also works with
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
11+ years
Listed in
Virginia
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, anger, relationship and intimacy issues, sleep problems, parenting concerns, and related topics.
How would you describe her therapy style?
She uses a client-centered approach combined with practical techniques from CBT and DBT to teach emotion regulation and communication skills.
How much experience does she have?
She has 11 years as a Licensed Professional Counselor and more than a decade of broader experience in mental health work.
What are her credentials and location?
She is an LPC in Virginia and practices under that credential in that state.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients.
What session formats are used?
Confirm current session options before booking to see which formats are offered for your situation.
How does payment work and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What is the first step to start therapy?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.