Kelly R Thompson

Biography

Kelly R Thompson, MA, LPC-Associate, serves as an adjunct professor in Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology, where Professor Kelly teaches PSY 606: Interpersonal Skills and Group Therapy. She is a psychodynamic and trauma-informed clinician whose practice is rooted in evidence-based treatment, drawing on DBT, ACT, and family systems approaches.

Professor Kelly brings 25 years of behavioral health experience spanning intake and assessment, pastoral counseling, intensive in-home services, private practice, and virtual eating-disorder and mood/anxiety IOP programs. When appropriate, she incorporates faith-informed and expressive-arts approaches to help clients deepen insight and build meaningful connections. She is clinically supervised by Dr. Carole Gilmore, PhD, LPC-S, as she completes her LPC licensure in Texas.

Her 90-minute intersectional narrative was released at the International Leadership Summit in Dallas, Texas, and her oratorical and written work on women’s health was featured by Duke University’s Center for Global Women’s Health Technologies. Professor Kelly’s professional focus centers on community education, relational healing, and supporting emerging therapists in developing compassionate, culturally humble, person-centered clinical identities aligned with Pepperdine’s mission of purpose, service, and leadership.

 

Education

• Master of Arts in Counseling, Dallas Baptist University, Dallas, Texas
• Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma