Kelly Winkler

Kelly has been working as a therapist in the Orlando area since 2002. She specializes in the area of anxiety and depression and complex childhood trauma, including sexual abuse. She wants all her clients to know that being in therapy is a brave endeavor. It is one that people take so that their present relationships and day-to-day life are filled with better ways to love themselves, love others, and love and be loved by God. 

She has found that our pain from present relationships or past harms get in the way of the very thing we most want, which is to love and be loved. 

The spiritual component of therapy is one Kelly treasures, but she never requires it to be included. A client is always leading the direction of the counseling. If a client wants to involve God and practices prayer in the healing process, Kelly is delighted to meet clients there, but if a client does not want a spiritual component, it is not brought into the client's therapy. Kelly works collaboratively with her clients, believing that what a client offers to the process is as important as her own training or expertise.

Kelly has spent many years supervising and consulting with

counselors. It is one of her life passions to train counselors in the area of trauma. She has ongoing consultation groups, as well as individual supervision. Kelly believes that supervision can be a place where one can be trained to hear a client's story accurately and help them make sense of what has happened to them. It is a place to learn the skills to help a client with the change the client wants emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, and practically. 

Also, supervision can be a place to learn to listen to what God's Spirit is doing to bring good and healing into a client's life. The story, Skill, and Spirit are the three areas she addresses in her supervision. Kelly is also an individual and group supervisor at Reformed Theological Seminary. 

More than anything, she enjoys and calls it her greatest delight to be a mom to her three kids.