Kelly James-Fraser, LPC

Kelly James-Fraser is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Georgia with over 10 years of experience. She began her career working in inpatient settings and corrections, and has provided therapy to people facing depression, anxiety, PTSD, and complex mental health struggles. Kelly often meets clients coming from backgrounds of physical trauma or emotional abuse. She uses a person-centered, solution-focused style in sessions.

Before moving into private practice, she worked on inpatient units caring for people with chronic and acute conditions. Her background includes crisis work with children, forensic inpatient treatment, parole evaluations for the Department of Corrections, and group private practice experience. That range informs how she responds to safety concerns and severe stress.

Sessions are tailored to each person. She combines client-centered listening with practical strategies drawn from cognitive and behavioral approaches when helpful. Mindfulness and emotion-focused ideas are also used to support people dealing with intense feelings and relationship strain.

Kelly helps people address a broad range of issues including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, depression, coping with life changes, addictions, grief, intimacy-related issues, and ADHD. She also supports concerns related to body image, aging, chronic illness, caregiving stress, and kink and alternative sex culture.

Her style is collaborative and direct. Clients can expect focused conversations, clear goals, and strategies to try between sessions. She invites prospective clients to describe their main concerns so she can suggest a suitable way to begin.

How Kelly’s approaches translate to online work

Kelly draws from Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in her practice. Client-centered work focuses on listening closely and helping people find their own goals. CBT looks at thoughts and behaviors and introduces practical tools to change patterns that cause distress.

She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills when emotion regulation or intense reactivity is a concern. DBT skills teach concrete techniques for managing strong emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating stress in the moment.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Kelly will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences and suggest which methods to try first. That decision can change as work progresses, and she adjusts plans based on what helps most.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm current session options before booking since formats are listed by the therapist. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also lets people use practices such as mindfulness exercises and CBT worksheets between meetings. Discussing scheduling and the best session format is part of the initial match and planning process.