About Kelly
Kelly Rauch greets people who are feeling stuck, stressed, or unsure about their next step. She focuses on practical ways to reduce anxiety, lift low mood, and boost confidence.
Background and approach
Her style is straightforward and warm, aimed at helping clients feel heard and understood quickly. Kelly is a licensed marriage and family therapist - LMFT - practicing in Texas and also licensed in California.
She has seven years of experience working with stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, self-esteem, career struggles, and depression. She listens for the patterns that keep problems repeating and helps clients name them.
Sessions are a space to talk through what matters most and to try new ways of responding. Kelly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people practice skills between sessions.
She works with clients to set small, clear goals and tracks progress together. She pays attention to issues like abandonment, codependency, communication problems, family problems, forgiveness, self-love, and workplace issues.
That means practical steps for setting boundaries, improving communication, and rebuilding self-worth. The work is paced to fit each person’s needs and comfort level.
Therapy starts with one honest conversation about what’s hard now. From there Kelly helps craft a plan that fits daily life and personal goals.
Many clients find steady change comes from a mix of insight, new habits, and regular practice.
Practical approaches for online therapy and change
Kelly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real skills and clear goals. One approach emphasizes building communication and boundary skills to help with relationship problems and codependency. This involves practicing specific phrases and responses and trying them out between sessions to see what changes.Another approach centers on managing anxiety and low mood through small, doable behavioral changes. That can include short activities to improve mood, steps to structure a day, and experiments that test unhelpful assumptions. These techniques are hands-on and aimed at creating steady improvements.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Kelly will talk with clients about their goals and daily life, then tailor the methods that make the most sense. She checks progress regularly and adjusts the plan so the work stays helpful and manageable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people work face to face from different locations, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Chat and messaging are useful for short updates, skill coaching, or when writing feels more natural. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California, Texas
- Languages
- English