Madeline Lucille "Lucy" Kelley, LPC

Madeline Lucille "Lucy" Kelley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with two decades of experience. She focuses on helping people facing relationship strain, low self-esteem, career challenges, and major life changes. Lucy works in a direct, compassionate way and aims to make the first step less intimidating for someone seeking change.

Her approach centers on creating an open, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about thoughts and feelings. She uses practical strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy to address unhelpful thinking. She blends that with acceptance and commitment ideas to help people move toward meaningful goals.

Lucy also brings client-centered methods that prioritize each person’s experience and preferences. Mindfulness techniques are used to manage stress and improve focus on the present moment. When appropriate, she draws on solution-focused work to set clear, achievable short-term goals.

Her background includes long-term service on a counseling licensure board and teaching roles at several universities. Those roles inform her interest in clear communication and evidence-informed practice. She aims to support people coping with grief, addiction concerns, intimacy issues, anger, depression, chronic pain or illness, and related life stressors.

People seeking help are guided through steps to clarify goals and build small, workable changes. She supports work around codependency, workplace struggles, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, and self-love. Lucy practices from Arkansas and conducts sessions in English.

How her approaches shape online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and take concrete steps toward a chosen life. It is useful for coping with chronic illness, grief, and ongoing stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce symptoms like low mood or anxiety. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and tailoring the work to each person's priorities, which supports trust and practical goal setting.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lucy will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and daily life. That may mean combining elements of ACT, CBT, and client-centered listening so the plan matches what the person wants to change and how they prefer to work.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow check-ins during a lunch break or between commitments. It can also let someone choose a quieter setting or a shorter check-in when attention or energy is limited. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises, mindfulness practices, and goal-setting tools to remote sessions to keep progress moving forward.