Counseling for life transitions

Thoughtfully crafted to elevate what matters most.

Welcome! I provide individual counseling for individuals facing substantial life changes. These changes can raise existential questions and stability can feel far away. Feelings don’t last forever, and there is hope. It just may not be as readily available in this moment, or look the way it has in the past. Together we can explore what’s next, mourn what’s lost, and laugh at the absurd.

I work primarily with individuals navigating life changes, career burnout, and cancer survivorship. These shifts in life can bring about anxiety, depression, grief, and burnout. They tend to become more nuanced when we consider all aspects of someone’s identity, like caretaking, financial status, neurodiversity, cultural context, and more.

I strongly believe you are the best expert on what’s helpful for you (you’ve made it this far already), and there are times when having an outside professional perspective can be necessary. That’s where I can be of service.

As a counselor, I tend to pull from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) practices and will integrate other counseling modalities like narrative therapy, strengths-based, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) as they are helpful.

Areas of specialization

  • Calming abstract background on Kelly Hemphill Counseling website, offering online therapy for stress management and cancer survivorship across WA.

    Cancer survivorship

    Emotional, spiritual, and mental support for continuing onwards with a life changing diagnosis.

  • A close up of white flowers representing resilience for those facing work related anxiety.

    Work anxiety

    There's an alternative to the normalization and even glorification of productivity and maximizing work output.

  • View of yellow trees in Seattle, Washington, representing the changing seasons for online anxiety therapy and life transitions counseling with Kelly Hemphill.

    Life transitions

    We navigate transitions every day. Other transitions have the potential to be more isolating and open to stigma, which doesn't have to happen.

  • A close up of ivy in Seattle, Washington on Kelly Hemphill Counseling website, offering online therapy for stress management and cancer survivorship across WA.

    Ambiguous grief

    Learning how to move forward after a loss which rocked your world, but may not be as understood by your immediate community.