Kelly Harper, LCSW

Kelly Harper is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 22 years of experience in Louisiana. She focuses on practical support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, and anger. Kelly works with adults facing relationship and family concerns and with parents who need help managing everyday challenges.

She believes people know their own stories and already have strengths to build on. In sessions she listens carefully, helps identify small steps, and practices tools people can use between meetings. The work is straightforward and goal-oriented, aimed at easing symptoms and improving daily functioning.

Kelly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. She also draws on Solution-Focused Therapy to set clear, short-term goals and find practical ways forward. These approaches keep sessions concrete and task-focused when that fits a person's needs.

Her background includes many years of clinical practice helping with grief, trauma and abuse, ADHD, caregiving stress, and workplace issues. She also supports people struggling with self-esteem, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are adapted to the individual and emphasize skills people can use in everyday life.

Kelly offers a calm, direct style with an emphasis on actionable strategies. She helps people weigh options, try new behaviors, and track real progress. The aim is steady improvement through clear goals and collaborative problem solving.

How Kelly Uses Evidence-Based Approaches Online

Kelly commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors; this approach is useful for anxiety, depression, anger, and related symptoms. Solution-Focused Therapy is also part of her practice and centers on setting realistic, short-term goals and identifying small steps that move a person toward those goals.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Kelly will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, and together they decide which methods to try. Plans are adjusted as progress is tracked so the work stays relevant and practical.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care easier to fit into busy lives. Video can be used for fuller conversation and skill work, phone calls are helpful when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text messaging can support brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, shorter check-ins, and ways to keep momentum between meetings.