Kelly Sheets, LPC

Kelly Sheets is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Tennessee with eight years of clinical experience. She works with people facing addiction, trauma and abuse, mood concerns such as bipolar disorder and depression, and stress and anxiety. Kelly also addresses relationship and family-related struggles, eating issues, anger, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue.

Kelly spent much of her career in a residential alcohol and drug treatment program. That work gave her regular exposure to co-occurring issues that feed into substance use. She helped people confront personality patterns, manage intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviors, and navigate trauma responses. She also has a research background related to combat-related PTSD.

Her sessions are conversational and down-to-earth. Existential therapy is a core influence, and she draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy when they fit the situation. In practice this means talking through values, noticing unhelpful thought patterns, and trying concrete behavior changes.

Kelly’s training includes a Bachelor of Science in Clinical Psychology and a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from East Tennessee State University. She uses what she’s learned in clinical and social psychology to explain how common human reactions arise and to reduce shame about difficult responses.

People who come to her often want a thoughtful, practical conversation about what’s driving their patterns. She aims to help clients name those patterns, practice small changes, and test new ways of being. If you are coping with addiction, trauma, codependency, or persistent anxiety, she can help you talk it through and plan next steps.

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