Kelly Peters, LCPC
Illinois · 35 years in practice
Kelly Peters is a licensed counselor with 35 years of hands-on experience.
License and registration
- LCPC, Illinois
- 180.002099 · expires March 2027
- NPI
- 1588732408 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 35
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Kelly
Kelly Peters is a licensed counselor with 35 years of hands-on experience. She focuses on helping people facing anxiety, depression, loss, addiction, relationship strain, and big life changes. Her tone is warm and collaborative, and she aims to make sessions straightforward and useful for everyday life.
She draws on several practical approaches, including existential ideas about meaning, acceptance and commitment strategies for values-based action, and cognitive-behavioral tools to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and tailored to each person’s needs and goals. Kelly works to build a realistic plan you can use between meetings. Her background includes long experience across individual work, couples, group settings, and organizational services such as employee assistance and crisis intervention.
Kelly has also developed post-graduate certificates in areas like addictions and spiritual psychology, which inform how she frames recovery and growth. In a session she focuses on clear steps - identifying priorities, practicing new skills, and checking progress together. She pays attention to life context such as caregiving stress, chronic illness, grief, and relationship patterns that often keep problems repeating.
People who choose her often want both practical strategies and space to talk about meaning, values, and purpose. Kelly aims to help people find more steady footing so they can make changes that matter in daily life.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Kelly lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Kelly names
- Existential Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapy approaches shape online work
Kelly often uses existential ideas to help people look at meaning, choice, and values when life feels empty or stuck; this approach invites honest questions about purpose and direction. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, is used to help people accept difficult thoughts and emotions while taking committed action toward what matters. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on respectful listening and building a trusting relationship so people feel heard and can explore change at their own pace.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging let people choose what fits their schedule and needs. Video is useful for a full conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can be used for shorter check-ins or when a written record of thoughts is helpful. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care and fit therapy into a busy life.
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Questions people ask
What concerns can be addressed in sessions?
Kelly works with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, stress, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue.
What is the therapeutic style like?
Therapy is warm, respectful, and collaborative with a focus on practical steps and values-based goals. Sessions are conversational and tailored to each person's needs.
How much clinical experience does the therapist have?
The therapist has 35 years of professional experience across individual, couples, group, and organizational work including crisis intervention and employee assistance services.
What credentials and location apply to this therapist?
Kelly holds an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential, listed as LCPC, and practices from Illinois.
Are sessions available in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not accepted at this time.
Which session formats are offered?
Work is available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging depending on what fits your needs.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What do I do to begin therapy?
To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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