Kelsey Devries, LMSW

Kelsey Devries is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) who focuses on helping people change unhelpful thoughts and everyday habits. She brings a warm, interactive style to sessions and aims to make therapy a comfortable place that still moves toward real goals. Kelsey believes in working with each person’s definition of wellness and encourages humor and honesty in the room.

She uses approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help people notice thinking patterns and develop practical skills. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing inform her work when clients want to build awareness or find the motivation to change. Treatment plans are shaped by the client’s goals rather than a fixed protocol.

Kelsey has nine years of experience in social work across settings that included a focus on trauma, addiction, and issues that arise in relationships and family life. That background informs how she structures sessions and the kinds of coping tools she offers. She often uses structured problem solving to break big stressors into manageable steps.

Common concerns she helps people address include stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, grief, self-esteem, coping with life changes, and intimacy-related issues. She also works with challenges like attachment and abandonment concerns, communication problems, and caregiver stress.

Sessions are conducted in English and Kelsey practices in Michigan. Before beginning, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on therapist availability.

How Kelsey’s approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and working at the client’s pace to build trust and clarity. It helps when someone needs a safe place to sort thoughts and decide what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect; it uses simple, practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and daily habits that maintain stress or anxiety. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which can help with strong emotions, relationship strain, or repeated patterns of behavior.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Kelsey will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress or challenges emerge.

Confirm the current session options before booking, since formats are set by the therapist and may change. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It also makes it simpler to practice CBT exercises or DBT skills between meetings and to bring real-life examples into session conversation.