Kellie Kiernan, LPCC
Ohio · 15 years in practice
Kellie Kiernan is an Ohio-licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) with 15 years of experience.
License and registration
- LPCC, Ohio
- E.2303379 · expires March 2027
- NPI
- 1619314655 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 15
- 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 Kellie
Kellie Kiernan is an Ohio-licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) with 15 years of experience. She works with adults and provides counseling focused on everyday struggles like anxiety, stress, grief, and relationship concerns. Sessions use messaging formats rather than live video or phone calls.
Kellie aims to offer a calm, direct approach that helps people find practical ways to cope and move forward. Kellie combines existential ideas with cognitive and behavioral tools to help clients face difficult choices and find meaning.
Background and approach
She also draws on acceptance and commitment approaches and emotionally focused methods to strengthen emotional awareness and valued actions. In sessions she helps people notice patterns, try new behaviors, and set clearer boundaries. Her focus includes trauma, grief and bereavement, self-esteem, anger, intimacy-related issues, and coping with life changes.
Additional areas she addresses are abandonment, attachment concerns, codependency, control and communication problems, guilt and shame, isolation, and hospice or end-of-life counseling. She does not provide services for certain diagnoses listed elsewhere and will discuss appropriateness during the first meeting. Kellie offers short written-message sessions by appointment and responds to messages during scheduled session times.
She asks that clients be residents of Ohio and be physically located in Ohio during sessions, since licensing is state-based. Her style is straightforward and warm, aimed at helping people take realistic steps toward improvement. To begin, prospective clients complete a short questionnaire and schedule an initial consultation to review concerns and determine fit.
Kellie clarifies expectations at that first session and works collaboratively to set goals and next steps.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Kellie lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Kellie names
- Existential Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused 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
Therapeutic approaches offered online and how they help
Existential Therapy helps people examine meaning, choice, and personal values when life feels uncertain or empty. It encourages facing difficult questions and finding how you want to live amid challenges. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on accepting uncomfortable feelings while taking actions that align with personal values, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behavior interact and gives concrete tools to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss your goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, and then adapt methods as you go. Therapy often blends approaches so practical skills and personal meaning work together to meet your needs.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or you need a quieter check-in, and messaging works well for brief, focused exchanges or ongoing written check-ins. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping regular contact with a licensed professional.
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Questions people ask
What issues does Kellie help with?
She helps with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, anger, depression, and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include attachment issues, codependency, control and communication problems, guilt and shame, and hospice or end-of-life counseling.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Kellie blends existential ideas with approaches like CBT, ACT, DBT, and emotionally focused work to help clients clarify values and try practical changes. Sessions emphasize noticing patterns, building emotional awareness, and setting achievable steps.
What is her professional background?
She holds 15 years of clinical experience and identifies as an LPCC. Her practice history includes work with adults on a wide range of mood, stress, and relational concerns.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is licensed in Ohio as an LPCC and provides services to people who are physically located in Ohio during sessions. Sessions are arranged by appointment according to her schedule and licensing rules.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging as session formats, with a primary emphasis on messaging appointments. Specific scheduling details are discussed during the intake.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. Exact pricing is provided during the matching and scheduling process.
What steps should I take to begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule an initial consultation. The first session reviews your concerns and determines if the therapist-client match is a good fit.
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