Kelly Meissner , LMFT

Kelly Meissner is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 15 years of clinical experience, combining insight-oriented work with practical strategies to support personal growth. She guides people who are motivated to increase self-awareness and who often draw on a sense of a higher power as part of their healing. Her focus is on helping clients understand the relationships among thoughts, emotions, and behaviors so they can make lasting changes in how they relate to themselves and others.

Her approach blends methods from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), client-centered work, existential perspectives, and emotionally focused techniques, along with a strong background in hypnotherapy. She became a Certified Hypnotherapist through the National Guild of Hypnotists in 2016 and has extensive clinical hypnosis training through the Minnesota Society of Clinical Hypnosis, with more than 200 hours of instruction. Hypnotherapy is used alongside talk therapy to address unconscious patterns that sustain unwanted habits and emotional responses.

Kelly often integrates mindfulness, meditation, inner child and parts work, the Enneagram, and solution-focused strategies to tailor treatment to each person. She works with concerns such as stress and anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, sleep difficulties, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and life transitions, helping clients move toward greater self-understanding and more effective coping.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Kelly Meissner draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to guide online work. ACT helps people clarify personal values and take committed action despite uncomfortable thoughts and feelings, which can support coping with anxiety, stress, and life transitions. CBT focuses on identifying and adjusting unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, and is often used to address depression, panic, and sleep problems.

She also uses client-centered principles, which emphasize empathy, active listening, and collaboration to build a trusting therapeutic relationship. Together these approaches allow for both insight and practical skill building, and Kelly works with clients to determine which methods fit their goals and preferences in a collaborative way.

Online sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging offer flexibility for different schedules and communication styles. Licensed professionals can use these formats to provide consistent support without requiring travel, making it easier to maintain momentum between sessions and to access care from home or work.