Chelsea Durbin, LMFT
Practical support for anxiety and trauma recovery
About Chelsea
Chelsea Durbin helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist, and she aims to make sessions feel calm and direct.
Background and approach
Chelsea uses clear, practical steps so clients can start feeling steadier in day-to-day life. Chelsea listens for patterns that cause pain, like abandonment worries or attachment issues.
She helps clients name how shame, guilt, or impulsivity show up and then works with them on new ways to respond. Communication skills and rebuilding trust are common parts of her work on relationship concerns.
Clients who feel isolated or stuck talk about life purpose, self-love, and mood shifts. Chelsea supports people processing sexual assault, self-harm urges, or post-traumatic stress with careful pacing and attention to readiness.
She also addresses questions of sexuality and non-monogamous relationships in practical, nonjudgmental ways. Her style mixes compassionate listening with hands-on strategies that fit each person’s needs.
Chelsea aims to make progress measurable and understandable so people know what changed and why. She encourages small, sustainable steps rather than big, sudden fixes.
Chelsea has six years of clinical experience working with a range of concerns in Kentucky. She offers sessions in English and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session according to availability.
Evidence-based approaches and online access
Chelsea draws on well-researched therapeutic techniques to address trauma, mood, and relationship concerns. For trauma-related work she focuses on paced, trauma-informed methods that help people process difficult memories and reduce intense symptoms. For mood and anxiety issues she uses approaches that teach practical skills for managing worry, improving sleep, and reducing negative thinking.Finding the right approach is collaborative. Chelsea works with each person to pick methods that match their goals, comfort level, and life demands. She adjusts techniques over time based on what helps most and what feels manageable for the client.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit busy schedules. Video sessions let people read facial cues and practice communication skills. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not convenient. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, reflections between sessions, and people who prefer written communication. These options aim to make consistent care easier to schedule and keep up with daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English