Kelly Ready

Kelly Ready is an AASW social worker with 15 years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain and trauma. She speaks plainly and meets people where they are. Kelly draws on a compassionate, respectful style and aims to make therapy workable for busy lives.

She helps with parenting concerns, birth trauma, addiction-related issues and intimacy challenges. Kelly also supports people facing career stress, sleeping or eating difficulties, low self-esteem and the effects of chronic illness. She includes a focus on attachment, abandonment and neurodiversity matters where relevant.

Kelly uses practical, evidence-informed approaches. Sessions focus on managing unhelpful thought patterns, building emotion regulation skills and strengthening relationships. She adapts her plan to each person’s goals and day-to-day routines rather than following a one-size-fits-all method.

Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Kelly listens first, then offers tools from therapies such as cognitive behavioural work, dialectical behaviour strategies and acceptance and commitment ideas. Conversations are directed toward small, achievable changes that add up over time.

As a parent of three, Kelly understands the juggling of household and work demands. She encourages realistic steps for coping with life transitions, compassion fatigue, parenting strain and the persistent stress that comes with caring for others.

Approaches that guide online conversations

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values, even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting and changing thought and behaviour patterns that keep problems going, and is useful for anxiety, depression and sleep difficulties. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and can help with intimacy, abandonment concerns and relationship dynamics.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. Together they will choose or blend methods so sessions match real-life needs rather than a single label.

Confirm session formats before booking as none are listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when days are tight. It also makes it possible to use written exercises, screen-shared worksheets or guided breathing practices during a session, which fit well with the practical, skills-based methods Kelly uses.