Darcie Kelly

Darcie Kelly is a licensed clinical social worker with two decades of experience in mental health. She brings a practical, direct style to sessions and aims to meet people where they are. Darcie helps with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and many relationship and sexuality concerns, including work related to kink and nontraditional relationships.

She trained with a psychology degree from Indiana University, Bloomington, and earned a Master of Social Work from Walla Walla College in Missoula, Montana. She also completed a non-terminal master’s program in Applied Behavior Analysis at Montana State University. Her credentials include LICSW and LCSW and she practices in Montana.

Darcie draws on cognitive behavioral ideas and mindfulness to help people change unhelpful patterns. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-based ideas when those fit a person’s goals. Her approach often emphasizes behavior change and practical steps people can try between sessions.

Sessions are described as warm, relaxed, and nonjudgmental. She aims to create an inviting space where people feel supported while they work on goals like improving mood, coping with grief, or addressing intimacy and body image concerns.

Her focus includes eating and food-related issues, dissociation, domestic violence, sexual assault and abuse, parenting concerns, compassion fatigue, and seasonal affective disorder. Darcie also works with people navigating polyamory or other non-monogamous arrangements and those facing shame, guilt, or emptiness.

How Darcie’s approaches translate to online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice hard thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. ACT can help with anxiety, depression, and problems linked to avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thought and behavior and uses small experiments and homework to change them; it is useful for mood, panic, and many stress-related concerns. Mindfulness-based ideas teach simple attention exercises to reduce reactivity and improve mood regulation.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. That conversation shapes whether ACT, CBT, mindfulness, attachment ideas, or a mix will be used in sessions.

Confirm current session options before booking to know how this therapist offers online care. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week and reduce travel time. It can also allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight or sessions without video when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. The focus remains on practical tools and behavior changes that translate into everyday life.