Kelly Meissner, LMFT

Kelly Meissner is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 15 years of clinical experience who has supported thousands of people through life transitions, grief, trauma, anxiety, and struggles with self-esteem. She works particularly well with individuals who are committed to personal growth, wish to deepen self-awareness, and often hold a belief in a higher power as part of their healing process. Her practice emphasizes that people are more than their thoughts and emotions and focuses on building awareness of patterns that drive behavior and feelings.

Her work draws from a blend of evidence-informed and insight-oriented methods, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered approaches, Emotionally-Focused ideas, and existential perspectives. She also incorporates Positive Psychology techniques and experiential methods such as hypnotherapy, the Enneagram, inner child and parts work, and solution-focused strategies. Kelly became a Certified Hypnotherapist through the National Guild of Hypnotists in 2016 and completed extensive clinical hypnosis training with the Minnesota Society of Clinical Hypnosis, totaling over 200 hours.

Kelly uses mindfulness, meditation, and hypnotherapy alongside talk therapy to help uncover unconscious blocks and reduce repeating patterns that interfere with well-being. She offers practical tools to manage stress, sleep problems, panic, compassion fatigue, and relationship concerns while supporting clients exploring life purpose, forgiveness, body image, and caregiver stress. Her approach is collaborative and geared toward helping people make meaningful, sustainable change.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients clarify personal values and learn to accept difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to value-driven action. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and life transitions to build psychological flexibility. Client-Centered Therapy centers the client as the expert on their own experience and emphasizes empathy, unconditional positive regard, and collaboration to foster self-exploration and growth. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and developing practical strategies to change them, which can be useful for depression, panic, and sleep difficulties.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Kelly collaborates with each person to identify which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. She tailors interventions from ACT, CBT, and client-centered work to fit a client’s unique circumstances and adapts over time as goals evolve.

Offering therapy online allows for flexible access to care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make scheduling easier around work, caregiving, and other obligations, and enable consistent therapeutic support across life changes while working with licensed professionals and therapists trained in these approaches.