May Kirby, LPC

May Kirby is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in South Carolina. She centers therapy on the relationship she builds with each person and uses that connection to help them make changes they choose. Her work focuses on everyday thoughts and habits that shape mood and behavior. She draws on ten years of clinical experience supporting people with stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma-related concerns. She also helps with relationship strain, grief, addictions, sleep and eating problems, and challenges tied to attention and mood. May pays attention to patterns that come from family history, attachment wounds, and life transitions. In sessions she mixes practical tools with reflective conversation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to notice and change unhelpful thinking and habits. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify values and take committed action toward them. Her style is client-centered and collaborative. She listens for strengths and works to strengthen them alongside clients. The room is focused on small, doable steps as much as on understanding the past. May’s background includes work in intensive outpatient mental health treatment. That experience informs how she supports people through crisis, compassion fatigue, and complex patterns such as codependency or obsessional thoughts. To start, she asks about goals and daily routines, then builds a plan that fits the person’s life.

How therapeutic approaches guide online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then take small steps toward a life that matters to them. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with big life changes.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying thinking patterns and everyday habits that keep problems going, then testing and changing those patterns with practical exercises. It often helps with panic, obsessive thoughts, mood challenges, and sleep or eating routines.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. May works with each person to see which methods best match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That collaboration means therapy can shift over time as priorities and circumstances change.

Confirm the available session formats before booking since specific formats are not listed in the biography. Online sessions can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so people can use time for work or caregiving. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT and CBT exercises to an online setting so clients can practice new habits between meetings.