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  Michelle Kelley has been a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and Nationally Board Certified Counselor for 30 years. She's devoted her career to helping individuals and families navigate life's challenges with compassion, insight, and evidence-based care. Throughout her journey, she's counseled in community, private practice, hospital, and clinical mental health settings throughout Illinois and Iowa. Now based in the Peoria area after relocating from the Quad Cities, she's bringing her experience to the Illinois and Iowa communities through online support. She  specializes in supporting adults through life transitions, trauma, anxiety, grief, and more. Outside the therapy room, she enjoys acrylic painting and outdoor adventures.  

Types of therapies I provide for clients who are

18-65 years old:

​I am trained in the following types of therapy and more, however, I'm introducing a therapeutic framework called

The Compass Path: 

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

​Eye Movement Desensitization and Re-Processing

(adapted for online purposes)

​Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD, trauma, and life-changing events

​​​Internal ​Family Systems

Parent Coaching

​​Exposure-Response Therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Somatic Processing Therapy

Psychiatric Nutrition Counseling

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30 years of experience in clinical counseling:​

  • Trauma and PTSD

  • Addiction

  • ADHD

  • Alcohol Use

  • Anger Management

  • Anxiety

  • Bipolar Disorder

  • Bisexual

  • Chronic Impulsivity

  • Codependency

  • Coping Skills

  • Dissociative Disorders (DID)

  • Divorce

  • Domestic Abuse

  • Dual Diagnosis

  • Eating Disorders

  • Education and Learning Disabilities

  • Grief

  • Infertility

  • Infidelity

  • Life Coaching

  • Life Transitions

  • Marital and Premarital

  • Men's Issues

  • Mood Disorders

  • Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)

  • Parenting

  • Peer Relationships

  • Personality Disorders

  • Self Esteem

  • Sexual Abuse

  • Sexual Addiction

  • Sleep or Insomnia

  • Spirituality or Christian-based

  • Stress

  • Substance Use

  • Suicidal Ideation

  • Thinking Disorders

  • Video Game Addiction

  • Women's Issues

This clinician uses Simple Practice for online therapy billing and telehealth services for Illinois and Iowa residents with covered insurance or private pay.

          

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