Anna Lehew Kelley
Calm, practical support for life and relationships
LCSW West Virginia
- Experience
- 12 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Family
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Attachment-Based Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Anna
Anna Lehew Kelley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, addiction, and major life changes. She speaks plainly and works alongside clients to find workable steps forward.
Background and approach
Her style is nonjudgmental and collaborative, aimed at practical change rather than labels. She brings 12 years of experience and a Master of Social Work from the University of Pittsburgh.
She offers help for trauma and post-traumatic stress, substance use concerns, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, and challenges tied to ADHD. She also supports people navigating divorce, infidelity, first responder issues, veteran concerns, and young adult transitions.
In sessions she uses a mix of approaches to match the person and the problem. That can mean focusing on communication patterns in relationships, looking at attachment needs, or teaching skills to manage strong emotions.
Cognitive tools help change unhelpful thinking, while behavioral strategies practice concrete new habits. When working with relationships, she draws on principles from the Gottman Method to improve connection and reduce conflict.
Her work with trauma includes methods aimed at processing distressing memories and reducing their hold on daily life. Sessions are collaborative - goals are set together and progress is checked along the way.
Anna offers flexible online formats including video, phone, chat, and text messaging. She helps people find the right pace and format, whether that is a focused skills session or a longer process for deeper issues.
How therapeutic approaches translate online
Anna blends relationship-focused and skills-based methods to meet each person where they are. The Gottman Method concentrates on changing interaction patterns between partners, building trust, and improving everyday communication to reduce conflict and increase closeness. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds affect current relationships and helps people recognize needs and rebuild more supported ways of connecting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She discusses goals and preferences with each client and chooses or adjusts methods together. That collaborative process helps decide whether to emphasize communication skills, trauma-focused work, or practical coping strategies based on the issue at hand.
Online formats support this same work with greater flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for relationship sessions and deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging offer quick skill reminders, brief check-ins, or supplemental support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to practice new skills in real time.
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Experience
12+ years
Licensed in
West Virginia, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee
Languages
English