Kelley Halter, LCMHC - Therapist in New Hampshire

15 years experience
Adoption and foster care
Client-centered approach

About Kelley

Kelley Halter is a licensed clinician with 15 years of experience helping people through hard life moments. She practices in New Hampshire and holds the LCMHC credential, and she creates a calm, accepting space for people to talk about stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship strain.

Her work often focuses on everyday struggles such as parenting stress, mood concerns like depression and bipolar disorder, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. Kelley also helps people dealing with eating or sleeping problems, anger, ADHD, and challenges that come from trauma or major life changes.

She uses a client-centered stance that keeps the person’s goals front and center. That means conversations shape the plan and tools are chosen to match what the person needs. Kelley draws on approaches like attachment-focused work, cognitive behavioral ideas, dialectical skills, and emotionally-focused methods to offer different ways to tackle problems.

Kelley pays special attention to adoption and foster care concerns and to attachment-related struggles. She also supports people facing blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and identity-related issues such as LGBT matters and body image worries.

Sessions aim to build practical coping skills, clearer communication, and stable routines that fit daily life. Kelley emphasizes small, sustainable changes that help people feel more capable and connected over time.

Therapeutic approaches that adapt to online work

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationships shape feelings and responses. It helps people improve emotional connections, address attachment wounds, and work through adoption and foster care related feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, behaviors, and feelings and teaches specific skills to change patterns that maintain anxiety or depression. It is useful for mood symptoms, stress, and managing day-to-day routines.

Finding the right approach is part of the collaborative work. Kelley will discuss goals and preferences and try methods that fit the person’s life. Together the therapist and client decide which tools to use and adjust them as progress or new needs appear.

The listing does not specify which online session formats are offered, so please confirm current session options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Many people find they can practice skills between sessions in real time and bring examples from daily life into the conversation.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseParenting issuesCoping with life changes

Also works with

LGBTRelationship issuesGriefIntimacy-related issuesEating disordersSleeping disordersAnger managementSelf esteemBipolar disorderDepressionCoachingADHD

Additional focus areas

Adoption and foster care Attachment issuesAutism and Asperger SyndromeBlended family issuesBody imageCaregiver issues and stressChronic pain, illness, and disabilityCo-morbidityCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDependent personalityDisruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)Divorce and separationDomestic violenceEating and food-related issuesEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFatherhood issues Fertility issuesFirst responder issuesForgivenessGender dysphoriaGuilt and shameInfidelityIsolation / loneliness Life purposeMidlife crisisVeteran and Armed Forces IssuesMood disordersObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksPhobiasPolyamory / non-monogamous relationshipsPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-loveSexual assault and abuseSexualitySocial anxiety and phobiaSomatizationTraumatic brain injuryWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Existential TherapyMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingPsychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused TherapySomatic TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

15+ years

Credentials

New Hampshire

Languages

English

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Kelley address?

She works with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, eating and sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem, ADHD, and related concerns.

How would you describe her therapeutic style?

Her style is client-centered and collaborative. She helps people set goals and chooses techniques that match individual needs and preferences.

What is her clinical background?

Kelley has 15 years of clinical experience working with people facing mood disorders, social anxiety, relationship difficulties, and life transitions.

What credentials and location apply?

She holds the LCMHC credential and practices in New Hampshire.

In which language are sessions offered?

Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.

What session formats are used?

The original listing does not specify which session formats are offered, so confirm current session options before booking.

How are fees and billing handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

Choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

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