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Kelly Woods, LMFT-S

MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPIST

Kelly Woods, LMFT-S

Hi, I'm Kelly, a licensed marriage and family therapist based in Waco, Texas. I provide counseling for individuals, couples, and families, helping them strengthen their relationships, overcome conflict, and grow emotionally. 

More About Kelly

Kelly has been married to her husband Chris since 2008 and is a proud mom of three amazing sons. With over a decade of experience in counseling and a background as a youth pastor, Kelly brings warmth, faith, and a passion for growth to her work with clients. When she's not counseling, Kelly loves watching her sons’ sporting events, walking her dog, reading and listening to podcasts, rewatching Marvel’s Loki, and spending time with her husband on the back porch listening to Jon Foreman music.

Types of Counseling That I Help With

Individual

Couples

Family

EMDR Therapy

WHAT IS EMDR?

Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing. EMDR is a helpful psychotherapy technique for any client who would like to focus specifically on distressing memories or traumatic life experiences. Kelly has had EMDR for herself as the client and can attest personally to the transformative experience that EMDR can be for many people.

Areas of Expertise

  • Understanding your Enneagram type can offer valuable insights into your personality, behaviors, and how you interact with the world.

  • Attachment styles, developed through early childhood experiences with caregivers, significantly impact relationship dynamics in adulthood. These styles shape how individuals perceive themselves, their partners, and relationships overall, influencing communication, conflict resolution, and intimacy.

  • Anger, grief, and loss therapy involves helping individuals process the intense emotions that might accompany significant losses, often focusing on anger, a common and often misunderstood emotion in the grief process. Therapy can provide tools and strategies for expressing anger safely, understanding its roots, and developing healthier coping skills.

  • Spirituality and faith integration in therapy refers to incorporating a client's religious or spiritual beliefs, values, and practices into the therapeutic process to promote healing and well-being.

  • In session, Kelly works to give clients space to question long-held beliefs, welcomes doubt and seeks to provide clients with a safe environment to wrestle through the challenges that may have come in client's lives through their interaction with church, its leaders and organized religious communities.

  • Parenting support therapy offers parents a structured environment to gain skills, strategies, and insights to enhance their parenting, improve family dynamics, and address individual and family challenges.

Recognition &
Credentials

Kelly has been recognized multiple times in Wacoan’s “Best of” edition for excellence in Marriage and Family Therapy.

Awards

Qualifications & Training

LMFT Supervisor & Trained in EMDR Therapy

Education

• BA, Baylor University
• MA in Counseling, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

Client Testimonials

"Kelly has provided a safe and supportive space — not only to heal wounds and process traumatic experiences, but also to uncover the patterns I had unknowingly woven into my story: coping mechanisms and protective behaviors that no longer serve me. Through this dual focus, I’ve come to understand my role in certain dynamics and have begun to rewrite those narratives with compassion. This simultaneous work has brought true healing to the deepest parts of me. Therapy changed my life. Therapy with Kelly Woods has helped me reclaim it."

-Female, Individual Counseling

"We have been so pleased with Kelly and how she has helped our relationship grow.  We were not necessarily in a bad place when we decided to seek Kelly’s help.  We looked at it more like hiring a trainer for our marriage.   There is always room for improvement whether it be in one’s self or relationships.   Kelly has helped us learn more about ourselves and how we see and interact with the world and each other.  She has helped with our communication and introspection which has really helped during those times when life gets stressful.  I would definitely do it all over again knowing how far we have come along."

-Male, Couples Client

Have Questions?
Want To Schedule A Session?

*Kelly does not take insurance at this time.
Please contact her for information regarding fees.*

FAQs

  • In most cases, Kelly will leave it up to you to decide how often you would like to meet. In some cases, Kelly may give a suggestion based on the situation. Most often, people begin meeting with Kelly more often (weekly or every other week, for example), but then move to less often as their situation or relationship moves out of crisis and into a maintenance period. There are many who see Kelly monthly to check in and continue working through challenges that are no longer acute. 

  • In graduate school, Kelly realized quickly that she would have an eclectic approach to therapy, but specifically loved Virginia Satir and the Human Validation Process Model. Satir was a pioneer in therapy modalities that prioritize the unconditional positive regard of the client. Kelly also looks up to Marsha Linehan and Francine Shapiro, the founders of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and EMDR respectively. 

  • Kelly absolutely loves her work with people in counseling and that passion shows through in each session. Kelly enjoys her clients, is curious and engaged in their stories and genuinely cares about their well-being. Kelly's office is cozy and inviting. Kelly is disarming from the beginning and seems to understand how it can be awkward to meet someone for the first time and then tell them personal details about painful areas of life. Kelly is appropriately self-revealing and her eyes well up with tears when her clients cry. 

  • Kelly does mostly in-person sessions, but is happy to provide virtual sessions as needed for clients who are in Texas, where she is licensed. Virtual sessions can work for most clients, but there are some situations in which in-person appointments are better suited.