Kelly Cotton

Counseling Intern

Kelly (she/her) is a counseling intern pursuing a Master's Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling through Denver Seminary. Kelly is dedicated to meeting you, your family, and your children where you are in life, bringing a warm and supportive presence to her practice. She is passionate about working with both children and adults, focusing on areas such as relationship distress, trauma, anxiety, depression, women’s issues, parenting, identity exploration, and spirituality.

Kelly’s approach to therapy is deeply rooted in attachment theory, and she believes in the healing power of being witnessed, held, and attuned to in secure relationships. Kelly’s goal is to help both children and adults feel at home within themselves, fostering self-trust and secure attachments with others. In her practice, she draws on a range of therapeutic modalities, including person-centered therapy, child-centered play therapy, internal family systems (IFS), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and polyvagal theory/nervous system regulation. She embraces a holistic approach to counseling, believing deep healing involves working together with the body, mind, emotions, and behaviors.

Before joining Be and Belong Counseling, Kelly worked for four years at a foster and adoption agency, supporting foster and adoptive families as well as biological families within the child welfare system. She also has experience working with adolescents as a high school teacher and a youth ministry leader. Additionally, Kelly is a parent to three children and has spent the past several years as a stay-at-home mother and a student.

In her free time, Kelly enjoys spending quality time with her family, practicing breath work,dancing, getting out into nature, exploring new places, and connecting deeply with close friends.

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