Therapist profile
Kellie Gainey , LMHC
New York
LMHC - Anxiety and Codependency support
Continue with KellieWhere Kellie stands
- Credentials
- LMHC
- License
- LMHC, New York / 011317
- NPI
- 1669087276
- Experience
- 7 years
- Languages
- English
- Location
- New York
About
- Anxiety and stress
- Codependency focus
- Queer affirmative
About Kellie
Kellie Gainey is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in New York with seven years of counseling experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and codependency. She also supports people dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, and questions about intimacy and identity.
Kellie helps people build practical coping skills and adjust patterns of thinking and relating to others. She names and addresses how people-pleasing and boundary difficulties show up in everyday life. Conversations focus on what is getting in the way of your choices and on small steps you can take to feel more like yourself.
Her approach mixes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered work, and Existential ideas. That looks like noticing unhelpful thoughts, practicing concrete behavioral experiments, learning grounding and emotion-regulation skills, and clarifying personal values. Mindfulness and creative expression are often folded into sessions as tools for making changes.
Kellie identifies as a queer clinician and works from kink/BDSM positive, non-monogamous positive, and fat/body positive positions. She aims to be direct and practical in session while also attending to the emotional experience beneath the behaviors.
Sessions are offered in English and reflect her New York LMHC credential. If you are new to therapy, she asks clients to complete a brief matching questionnaire before scheduling a first appointment.
How sessions work
How Kellie uses therapeutic approaches online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clarify what matters to you and encourages small actions that fit those values. It is useful when people feel stuck or unsure what to choose next. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and testing unhelpful thoughts and then trying different behaviors to see what changes. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) builds specific emotion-regulation and distress-tolerance skills and can help when strong feelings get in the way of daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kellie treats therapy as a collaborative process and will help you decide which methods fit your goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean trying a skills-based method for a while or shifting toward values-focused ACT when decisions feel overwhelming.
Session formats are not listed in the basic profile, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, or remove the need to be on camera for every meeting. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT, DBT, and ACT techniques to remote sessions so practical skills and experiments still happen between meetings.
Areas of focus
Areas of expertise
Also works with
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
7+ years
Listed in
New York
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Does she help with people-pleasing and boundary issues?
Yes. Work often targets people-pleasing, trouble saying no, and boundary setting through practical skills and behavioral steps.
What is her general therapy style?
She uses a mix of CBT, DBT, ACT, and client-centered techniques with mindfulness and creative tools to practice new ways of thinking and behaving.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has seven years of experience providing one-on-one counseling in New York.
What credential and location does she hold?
She is an LMHC licensed in New York and works with adults based on that credential.
Are sessions offered in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. She does not accept international clients.
Which session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking by using the scheduling flow, as formats are not specified in the basic profile.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What do I need to do to begin?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are not safe at home, use the crisis and helpline numbers.