Kelly Peters, LCPC

Kelly Peters is an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 35 years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing anger, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, relationship strain, and life changes. She also supports people navigating caregiving stress, parenting challenges, and intimacy-related issues.

Her sessions focus on clear, practical conversation. She listens to the problem as described and helps people notice patterns that keep anger and resentment cycling. She uses direct skills work, mindful attention to difficult feelings, and practical behavior changes people can try between sessions.

Kelly blends cognitive behavioral techniques with acceptance and commitment ideas to help people respond differently to triggers. She also draws on client-centered and emotionally-focused approaches to improve communication and connection in relationships. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed.

Her background includes work in employee assistance programs, crisis intervention, and debriefing after critical incidents. Postgraduate certificates in areas such as addictions and Internal Family Systems inform her perspective, while her LCPC credential anchors her practice in Illinois.

People who come to her often want straightforward tools for anger at home or work. She helps them find small, sustainable changes - for example wording for hard conversations, breathing and ground techniques for intense moments, or new routines that reduce build-up. Sessions are conversational and action oriented.

Therapeutic approaches in online sessions