Kelly Gulat, LPC

Kelly Gulat is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with 11 years of counseling experience. She focuses on helping people sort through stressful life moments and find clearer direction. Kelly listens without judgment and aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable. Her work centers on everyday concerns like anxiety, grief, depression, stress, and difficulty sleeping. She also supports people facing trauma and abuse, attention challenges, compassion fatigue, and mood conditions such as bipolar disorder. Relationship and intimacy issues, communication struggles, parenting strain, and questions around identity and LGBT concerns are other common topics she addresses. Kelly uses practical approaches that match each person's needs. She draws from client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the person in the room. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps break down unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness techniques offer skills for emotion regulation and staying grounded in the moment. Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She helps set simple goals, practices skills together, and checks in about what is and isn’t working. Sessions include talking through current problems, building coping tools, and planning small changes that fit daily life. People who prefer a calm, accepting atmosphere tend to do well with her. If you want practical strategies paired with space to explore identity, meaning, and family concerns, Kelly aims to support that process.

How her approaches guide online therapy

Kelly uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow what matters most to each person. This approach focuses on listening, empathy, and supporting the client's own goals. It helps when people need acceptance and a place to make sense of personal values and identity.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT offers clear, practical exercises people can try between sessions to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, or manage low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy provides skills for tolerating distress and regulating strong emotions, useful for people coping with intense reactions or relationship challenges.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. Kelly will discuss goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together the therapist and client choose techniques that match those needs, then adjust as progress is made.

If you are considering online work, confirm the available session formats before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, shorten travel time, and allow more consistent check-ins. It also lets people practice skills in the settings where their day-to-day challenges happen. Licensed professionals can tailor pacing and homework to fit your routine, helping therapy feel practical and doable.