About Kelly
Kelly Wooldridge is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience. She practices in Nevada and uses a patient, down-to-earth approach to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and family-related struggles. Kelly blends talk-based work with body-focused methods to help people feel more grounded in their daily lives.
She listens for what matters most to each person and builds practical steps to reduce worry and manage strong emotions.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on real problems and clear strategies that can be used between meetings. Her background includes long experience supporting people through grief, relationship strain, and parenting pressures. Kelly also works with issues tied to adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, and problems that come from family of origin dynamics.
She aims to help people reclaim stability after difficult experiences and regain a sense of agency. Kelly uses a mix of evidence-informed tools such as cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. She also brings attachment-focused work and somatic approaches into sessions when helpful.
These tools are introduced in simple ways so clients can practice new skills at home. Therapy begins with a short conversation about goals and practical next steps. Kelly tailors the pace and methods to each person’s needs.
Her style is calm, clear, and anchored in three decades of direct practice.
How somatic and ACT-informed care works online
Somatic work pays attention to how emotions show up in the body, such as tightness, breath changes, or restlessness, and uses gentle movement and awareness to help people feel more regulated. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small, committed steps toward a meaningful life while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to try different tools and decide what fits best for their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative approach helps tailor sessions to each person’s pace and comfort.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for busy schedules. Video lets the therapist and client observe nonverbal cues, phone can be a simpler option, and chat or messaging supports ongoing check-ins and skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while adapting to daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Nevada
- Languages
- English