Taylor Kent (Gibbs), LCSW

Taylor Kent (Gibbs) is a licensed clinical social worker with nine years of experience working in Indiana. She brings a calm, conversational style to sessions and focuses on helping people use their strengths to move forward. Her approach is supportive and encouraging, and she aims to create a space where clients feel heard and respected.

Taylor usually works with adults and adolescents and has experience with trauma, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, addictions, and self-harm. She also helps people facing relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, and compassion fatigue. Clients often seek her for issues like ADHD, body image, shame, and attachment concerns.

Her work blends practical skills and personal reflection. Taylor often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, dialectical behavior techniques, and acceptance strategies to help people manage difficult feelings and change unhelpful patterns. She also draws on attachment ideas and client-centered conversation to deepen understanding of relationship patterns.

Sessions tend to be collaborative and down-to-earth. Taylor asks questions, offers concrete tools, and helps people try new ways of coping between visits. Humor and straightforward feedback appear when they fit the moment.

Treatment plans are made for each person, not for a diagnosis. People who want a conversational therapist who teaches skills and explores underlying patterns may find her style a good match.

How therapeutic approaches fit into online work

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical behavioral experiments. It helps with anxiety, depression, mood swings, and patterns that keep problems going.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, teaches people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can help with stress, avoidance, and life transitions.

Taylor will work with each person to decide which approach, or blend of approaches, feels most useful. She treats the choice as a collaboration - clients’ goals and preferences shape the plan rather than a fixed protocol.

Online sessions allow for flexible scheduling and different ways to connect. Video calls are good for hands-on skill teaching and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, moment-to-moment support, or when written reflection helps track progress.

These formats make it easier to fit therapy into daily life while using the same approaches Taylor practices in person.