Kelly Shope is a licensed professional counselor in New Jersey with 28 years of experience.
01About Kelly
Kelly Shope is a licensed professional counselor in New Jersey with 28 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, and difficult life transitions. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every conversation.
Her day-to-day approach is practical and straightforward. She uses cognitive-behavioral techniques alongside client-centered, solution-oriented work to help people identify patterns and try new ways of coping. Sessions focus on clear goals and simple steps that can be practiced between meetings.
Background and approach
Shope has worked in community mental health, residential programs, and school settings. That range means she has experience supporting children, adolescents, and adults in different stages and circumstances. She draws on nearly three decades of clinical experience when tailoring plans to each person.
Building trust is a priority in her sessions. She aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk through relationship stress, parenting strains, loneliness, mood concerns, or social anxiety. Practical strategies are paired with empathy to help people move forward.
For those unsure how to begin, she encourages the first step of reaching out and completing a brief match questionnaire. From there clients schedule sessions that fit their needs and work toward manageable changes over time.
02Credentials
- LPC (New Jersey)
- License 37PC00215500 · expires November 2026
- NPI
- 1689146193 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Kelly lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
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04Online support
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Kelly uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try clearer, more helpful behaviors. This approach is often used for anxiety, depression, social anxiety, and mood challenges because it focuses on practical steps and skill-building.She also works from a client-centered, solution-oriented perspective that focuses on the person’s goals. That means sessions emphasize what the client wants to change and creating small, achievable plans to get there. Together the therapist and client review progress and adjust the plan as needed.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Kelly will collaborate with each person to find what fits their needs, goals, and preferences rather than prescribing a single method. That process may include trying a few techniques to see what helps most.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets people send brief updates or get quick support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life situations.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does Kelly commonly address?
She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, relationship strain, and coping with life changes. Additional areas include isolation or loneliness, mood disorders, self-love, and social anxiety or phobia.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her work blends cognitive-behavioral techniques with a client-centered, solution-focused approach. Sessions aim to identify unhelpful patterns and practice small, doable changes between meetings.
How long has she practiced?
She brings 28 years of professional experience in mental health settings. That background includes community mental health, residential programs, and schools.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a licensed professional counselor with a New Jersey LPC credential and practices in New Jersey.
Can sessions be conducted in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire. After that, schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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