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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."
Dr. Kelley is also a Master Hypnotist and a National
Board Certified Fellow in Clinical Hypnotherapy with the NBCCH.
He uses hypnosis, with permission, to facilitate changes to the
subconscious. Weight Control programs and Stop Smoking programs
are one of his myriad hypnosis specialties.
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