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Dr. Kelley is a locally recognized cognitive-behavioral practitioner (CBT) who works with couples, adolescents, adults, and families. He has extensive experience in issues ranging from inappropriate adolescent sexual behaviors, substance abuse and mood disorders to anger management, anxiety and family relationship issues. Dr. Kelley specializes in the treatment of inappropriate adolescent sexual behaviors, high risk adolescent and adult depression, and victims of incest and/or sexual abuse. A Center for Hope is a place that doesn't label people. We truly believe that there is no such thing as a bad person, only a person with bad behavior. And the good thing about bad behavior is that it can be changed! Another of Dr. Kelley's strengths is working with at-risk adolescents and their families. This particular population includes, but is not limited to: (1) adolescents whose parents are considering out-of-home placement; (2) parents who have an adolescent in an out-of-home placement situation; (3) adolescents who are returning from out-of-home placement; and (4) over 18 young adults who may still be attending high school, still living at home, and who are exhibiting inappropriate behaviors, such as substance abuse, legal troubles, and/or poor school performance. Periodically, Dr. Kelley also runs parent and adolescent groups for this special population. A special mission for A Center for Hope is to provide licensed therapists to group homes who conduct both individual and group counseling sessions under Title 22. Cognitive-behavioral theory stresses that external events (some of which are out of our control) cause internal events (thoughts that are within our control). The resulting emotions that our thoughts cause can dictate which behaviors we exhibit. The aforementioned implies that we manifest some of the events in our lives as result of our thoughts. Nowhere is this example better explained than in a book written by James Allen in the late 1800's titled As A Man Thinketh. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale also wrote about this phenomena to change our behavior and outcomes via our thoughts in his 1952 best selling novel titled The Power of Positive Thinking. In contemporary times, the belief that our thoughts manifest desires is called the Law of Attraction. As the Founder and Director of A Center for Hope Dr. Kelley has helped hundreds of couples, adolescents, adults and their families deal with their trauma, pain, grief and development by employing cognitive-behavioral techniques mixed with his rare sense of humor. Dr. Kelley believes humor to be a vital ingredient in the therapy process. "When we feel stressed and anxious, hassled and harried, it appears that humor is sometimes one of our first assets to disappear." Nowhere is this phrase more exemplified than in The Last lecture by Dr. Randy Pausch.
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