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Kelly Jameson, PhD

Kelly Jameson, PhD, LPC-S is a therapist and public speaker. She works with adolescents and adults on life’s tough issues, both big and small.

On the road, she excites audiences with educational and engaging presentations! www.drkellyjameson.com

10/29/2025

🩵 October is brutal. Midterms, progress reports, full momentum on academics. The shine is off from the beginning of the school year, yet we are far from the holidays!

This is just a reminder that school is not everything! Humans present with many different forms of intelligence and our traditional school environment does not always value other forms of intelligence or ways to demonstrate knowledge. 🤦‍♀️

Excellent teachers offer MANY different ways to demonstrate mastery, every lesson, every unit, every time.

Remember, tests and quizzes are NOT the sole (or even top) measure of intelligence. Our job as parents is to help foster discovery of their authentic self and to recognize that discovery may not occur in a classroom environment AND THAT’S OK.

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10/27/2025

🩵 Meet Sue! My dear friend Sue is the creator and owner of and she embodies everything I try to help women discover in therapy, doing something for yourself and finding endless joy in it!

At almost 65 years old, after raising three children, logging over 40 years of marriage, and building a successful 30-year career as a professional landscape designer, Sue has found a new passion project: creating vintage Christmas wreaths! You can often find her scouring estate sales and antique markets, searching for the perfect treasure to craft her nostalgic, one-of-a-kind wreaths.

What I love most is that Sue does this purely because it brings HER happiness, creativity, and joy! She reminds me (and hopefully all of us) that it’s never too late to start something new, to pour your energy into something joyful, and to reconnect with what lights you up!

When you create from joy, success finds you! Her wreaths have struck a cord with so many women, each one a little piece of joy and nostalgia, and they’re selling out almost as fast as she can create them!

My hope is that ALL women can finds ways to be like Sue, giving themselves permission to create, to play, and to find fulfillment in ways that have nothing to do with checking off boxes for others. Do it not for approval or productivity, but just the pure joy of it.

If you are interested in learning more about Sue, her adorable She-shed (that she designed!) or her amazing one-of-a-kind vintage holiday wreaths, check out 🩷

10/25/2025

💜 We are all familiar with the word “friend” but if you had to truly define it, or write an essay on it, could you do it? The word friend is kind of like the word “love” we know what it is but it’s tricky to articulate. Let’s review:

A TRUE friend:

💜 Will never leave you wondering if you are included or not.
💜 Will build trust with you over time in small, consistent gestures. (Key word: consistent, like all the time)
💜 Will make time for you when you are struggling and when you are not.
💜 Will be honest with you, but in a kind way.
💜 They will ask questions about YOUR life.
💜 They check in on you for no reason.
💜 Will actually want to see you succeed!
💜 Will respect your differences and not cancel you for seeing something differently.
💜 They initiate plans with you.
💜 They KEEP plans with you.
💜 They reply to your messages in a timely manner.
💜 They remember things about you that are specific.
💜 They don’t talk badly about you when you are not around.
💜 They don’t leave you wondering where you stand with them.

🥳 Remember, a good friendship should be easy, light, smooth and the good part of your day or week. Not the bad part of your week!

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10/22/2025

💜 Having multiple friend groups is the 🔑 to social success in middle and high school. You have school friends? Great! You have friends from the studio? You have friends from your club sports team? Great! You have family friends? Great! Maintaining friendshsips across the different parts of your life is crucial to social success.

Is one group being annoying or confusing to you? Check in with your other group and make plans with them instead. Maintaining multiple friends groups evens out power dynamics and gives you options!

💜 More options = less pressure.

Oh, and this goes for moms too!
Our kids model what they see.

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10/20/2025

🔵🔴🟡🟢 Working with boys to identify feelings & emotions can be rough, even for seasoned therapists. Y’all know I love using Little People to help with social dynamics, but I find myself using these characters to help boys identify emotions.

Most kids are familiar with these characters from the Inside Out movies. I go through each one to make sure they know what character is what emotion. Then, I will point to each character and ask, “When was the last time you felt (Joy)? When was the last time you felt (anger)?”

This helps them to recall memories where they experienced certain emotions. They start telling the story of that experience and start realizing each experience comes with an emotion. Some positive, some negative but all are ok and a part of the human experience.

This is much more effective than asking, open-ended questions about feelings. It provides the structure to talk about things that went well or not so well in the past week or month.

The practice of identifying and processing emotions are essential for good mental health across all stages of life.

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10/14/2025

💜 It’s that time again! Who’s in? Who’s out? The group Halloween costume can cause irreparable damage. Every October, hours are spent strategizing, excluding, and crying over group Halloween costumes. For whatever reason, middle school girls particularly use this as an extreme power-play of social status. Other demographics fall victim to this as well, but none more than middle school girls.

If you have a daughter, please ask questions about their group Halloween costume. (Boys too!) Ask these questions and really listen to the answers:

🖤 Who came up with the idea?
💜 How many people are in it?
🧡 Was anyone from your friend group left out?
🖤 How did this come about?
💜 Can other people be added to this theme?
🧡 Is there a limit?
🖤 Is 1 mom ordering everything for the group?

There are 1 million ways to have a limitless group costume idea. Here are a few: skeletons, zombies, crayons, soda pops, m&ms, deck of cards, Barbie world, Harry Potter houses, fruits/veggies, cops & robbers, cowgirls, Minions, Disney characters, breakfast club foods, tourists, weather forecasts, sports fans, referees, occupations, haunted carnival characters, babies, cheerleaders, airline attendants, Greek goddesses, mad scientists, etc.

Here are a few that do NOT work and tend to be exclusive:
Many 2 person ideas such as Thing 1 & 2, salt and pepper, Mario and Luigi, peanut butter and jelly. Some 3 person costumes can also be problematic. Sanderson sisters, Alvin, and the Chipmunks, snap, crackle and pop, Powerpuff girls, rock, paper scissors, kiss, marry, kill.

The list goes on and on for things that don’t work. The Wizard of Oz, inside out emotions, mean girls.

This might sound trivial, but I cannot express the hurt that this night causes for so many girls.

Do you have other ideas?
Something that has worked well?
Please share them below.
Let’s do a better job on this fun holiday for our young people.

🖤🧡💜🖤🧡💜🖤🧡💜

10/12/2025

💙 It’s easy to focus on the hard parts of raising teens. The curfews, the agreements, the friend problems, the grades, etc. There is also so much good in these years. I took my girl to a Megan Moroney concert this weekend and I was impressed with the messaging from MM herself and her lyrics. It was then I was reminded of how many other influences our teens have in have in addition to us as parents…and it’s not all bad!

Thank you to artists like Megan Moroney who remind teen girls how to respect yourself in a million ways, keep working hard and always keep your girlfriends (and your mom!) close.
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09/24/2025

We are approaching the end of September. How are things going? Have you figured out which of your children needs more of you this year? Half the battle of a new school year is identifying which child is going to need more of you in regard to school, social dynamics, or general emotional development.

There is always one who needs more of your time, energy, and resources. This can change from year to year.

Who has the spinner landed on this year for you? ⬅️⬆️

08/12/2025

Did you know the start of a new school year is truly a psychological reset for your brain? It’s called a temporal landmark📍Each school year creates a mental boundary between the old you and the new you. Your brain loves the novelty of a new year and you actually get lots of dopamine from this new start that’s ripe with the possibility to be better!

⭐️ Bonus points for all of your friends being back together. That also gives you an emotional lift from constant social connection on the daily!

This reset is a surge in motivation and possibility, leaving all students to believe, “This is going to be a great year for me!“ So, by all means, enjoy the surge of dopamine and possibility!

Back to school! 🍎👊

08/10/2025

Where’s the lie? 🤷‍♀️

08/08/2025

There are basically two things I’m managing with clients this week…college freshman anxiety (fear of the unknown) and social strategizing for middle and high school students, especially those starting new schools! I love both of these issues so much. One is about emotion and one is about strategy.

The strategic sessions include manipulatives like my Little People shown here. So helpful, for real! I mean, who is NOT a visual learner?

I’m often asked, “How do you sit and listen to people‘s problems all day?“ I really don’t see it that way whatsoever.” When people can leave my office with a game plan after we’ve hashed out “the problem” that’s the magic. They feel heard, seen, confident and ready to address “the problem” and that’s the difference. That’s the breakthrough. Thats the magic. It’s the change that happens in their line of thinking, and that’s therapy. That’s CBT.

So, for the 2025-2026 school year, let’s go.
We are ready.
School supplies + therapy = success!

08/06/2025

We are getting very close to the start of the school year! For students with anxiety, these last few days and weeks before school can really turn up the anxiety. In fact, nothing triggers anxiety more than the unknown! If your child is entering a new school or even just a new grade, the nervous system can tick up quite a bit!

A few tips:

🥺 Reassure your student that it is completely normal to be anxious about the start of a new year. Everyone is anxious, even the teachers! If your child is in middle or elementary school, a great book to read is, “First Day Jitters“ by Julie Danneberg. Great little twist at the end.

😬 Ask them to verbalize fears or worries. Talk them through the concerns with patience. Avoid humor here, as their fears are real. Humor can be dismissive of feelings.

😩 Talk them through the first day of school starting with wake up time, breakfast, carpool, etc.

😳 Read every school email with your child that includes helpful information about things they need to know. Seeing things in print can sometimes curb anxiety in children and teens because it is evidence to contradict their worries.

😫 Call a therapist. We are trained for transitional anxiety! We’ve got you covered if you are overwhelmed, over scheduled or have no idea how to talk to your child about school anxiety.

😥 Tell your child you will help them be as prepared as possible! You will get through it together…and that beginnings are scary, endings are sad, but it’s the middle part that counts! 💝

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