Meet Lorelei Kelly, MSW, RSW

Lorelei Kelly is a Registered Clinical Social Worker providing counselling and ADHD assessments for youth and adults. She offers in-person therapy in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, along with virtual counselling throughout Newfoundland and Labrador and New Brunswick.

With approximately 14 years of clinical experience, Lorelei supports people experiencing anxiety, depression, ADHD, emotional dysregulation, stress, burnout, low self-esteem, relationship difficulties, substance use concerns, school or workplace challenges, and major life transitions. She also has a special interest in women’s mental health, including the emotional and psychological effects of perimenopause and menopause.

Lorelei holds a Master of Social Work with a specialization in Clinical Social Work Practice. She is an ADHD-Certified Clinical Services Provider and a Certified Dialectical Behavioural Therapist. Her professional background includes mental health and addictions services, private practice, and outpatient, residential, home-based, and virtual care.

Anxiety, Depression and Emotional Well-Being

Anxiety and depression can affect nearly every part of life, including relationships, motivation, concentration, sleep, work, school, and self-esteem. Some people feel persistently worried or overwhelmed, while others experience irritability, exhaustion, disconnection, low mood, or the sense that they are simply going through the motions.

Lorelei provides counselling for youth and adults experiencing anxiety, depression, chronic stress, emotional overwhelm, difficulty regulating emotions, perfectionism, people-pleasing, low confidence, and recurring patterns of self-criticism. She helps clients better understand what they are experiencing and develop practical strategies for managing difficult thoughts, emotions, relationships, and everyday responsibilities.

Women’s Mental Health and Perimenopause Counselling

Lorelei has a particular interest in women’s mental health and supports women navigating perimenopause, menopause, and other significant life transitions. Hormonal changes during midlife can coincide with anxiety, low mood, irritability, brain fog, disrupted sleep, reduced confidence, relationship strain, emotional sensitivity, and a feeling of no longer recognizing yourself.

Counselling can provide a validating space to explore these changes without dismissing them as “just hormones” or ordinary stress. Lorelei helps women understand the emotional impact of perimenopause and menopause, strengthen coping strategies, communicate their needs, reconnect with their identities, and navigate changes in relationships, work, caregiving, and personal well-being.

For women with ADHD, perimenopause may also make existing challenges with attention, memory, executive functioning, emotional regulation, rejection sensitivity, and burnout feel more noticeable or difficult to manage. Lorelei offers a neurodivergent-affirming approach that considers the full context of each woman’s experiences rather than viewing every concern through a single lens.

ADHD Assessments for Youth and Adults

Lorelei provides comprehensive ADHD assessments for youth and adults in Gander and virtually across Newfoundland and Labrador and New Brunswick. An assessment may be helpful for individuals experiencing ongoing difficulties with concentration, organization, time management, procrastination, forgetfulness, impulsivity, restlessness, motivation, emotional regulation, or completing everyday tasks.

ADHD can present differently from one person to another. Teenagers may struggle with assignments, deadlines, routines, academic expectations, emotional reactivity, or inconsistent performance. Adults may seek an assessment after years of chronic overwhelm, workplace difficulties, relationship strain, repeated burnout, or feeling that ordinary responsibilities require an unreasonable amount of effort.

Lorelei’s assessment process explores attention, executive functioning, impulsivity, emotional regulation, personal history, relationships, education, employment, and daily functioning. Her goal is to help clients develop a clearer understanding of their experiences and receive practical recommendations for moving forward.

ADHD, Rejection Sensitivity and Executive Dysfunction

Lorelei also provides counselling for youth and adults who have ADHD, identify with ADHD-related challenges, or are beginning to question whether neurodivergence may be affecting their lives.

Support may focus on executive dysfunction, time blindness, task initiation, inconsistent motivation, hyperfocus, masking, perfectionism, sensory overwhelm, emotional dysregulation, and ADHD burnout. Lorelei also works with people experiencing rejection sensitivity or identifying with the term rejection sensitive dysphoria, sometimes called RSD. Although RSD is not a formal diagnosis, many people use the term to describe intense emotional responses to criticism, conflict, perceived disapproval, mistakes, or the fear of disappointing others.

Lorelei helps clients approach these experiences with greater understanding and less shame while developing realistic strategies for emotional regulation, communication, boundaries, organization, relationships, school, work, and daily life.

DBT-Informed and Practical Counselling

As a Certified Dialectical Behavioural Therapist with extensive professional DBT experience, Lorelei can help clients strengthen emotional regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, communication, and interpersonal skills. Her work is also informed by Solution-Focused Therapy and a practical, strengths-based understanding of change.

Lorelei creates a warm and nonjudgmental environment where clients can speak openly about what is happening without feeling pressured to have everything figured out. Therapy is collaborative and adapted to each client’s needs, goals, experiences, strengths, and circumstances.

Whether you are seeking counselling for anxiety or depression, support through perimenopause or menopause, help with stress and emotional regulation, or an ADHD assessment for yourself or your teenager, Lorelei offers experienced and compassionate care.

Lorelei is available for in-person counselling and ADHD assessments in Gander, NL, and for secure virtual therapy throughout Newfoundland and Labrador and New Brunswick through Everest Therapeutics.