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About the Author:

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Jim Kelly, LCSW, began his career in the child welfare field, working in agencies specializing in the care and treatment of foster children. He has provided program consultation and staff training to many child-caring organizations throughout his career. He started his private psychotherapy practice in 1988, where he continues to work with children and families, individual adults, and couples. He has been married for thirty-eight years and is the proud father of two grown sons.

A first time author, James Kelly lives with his wife Catherine in Nashville,Tennessee.  A native of Houston, Texas, he has worked as a psychotherapist for more than thirty-five years. He wrote How to be the Adult in the Room as “a labor of love for his many clients who have asked for a book recommendation to reinforce their therapy.”

How to be the Adult in the Room 

304 pages, 6x9, paperback, $20.00

ISBN 978-1-62880-030-2  BUY NOW





About the Book:

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Browse the shelves of any bookstore or scroll through your favorite online book-selling site and you will find that there is no shortage of self-help books.   A quick search of the genre on Amazon revealed astaggering forty one thousand seven hundred and fifty eight titles.  With topics ranging from how to “recover your wounded soul” to “discovering your hidden genius,” self-help books are often filled with almost impossible to follow advice and over-used catch phrases.

 Not so with How to be the Adult in the Room. Written by psychotherapist James Kelly, this book captures, in easy to read language, the insights and skills Kelly has shared with his clients throughout  his  twenty-five years as a private practitioner.Just as his clinical work aims at helping people grow, he put pen to paper to “help foster growth in every reader.”

How to be the Adult in the Room challenges“children in grown-up bodies” to advance toward full-fledged adulthood.  Defining the traits of an adult, Kelly confronts the issues of being the adult in life, in marriage, and as a parent.  Based on well researched principles such as personal responsibility, self-acceptance and independent thinking, Kelly leads the reader toward truematurity.

After decades of listening to clients confide their deepest pain and darkest secrets, therapist James Kelly has a clear understanding of the psyche ofthose who get stuck in their development. Gently guiding his readers toward life altering change, this book tackles a truly a complex issue “making it so understandable that anyone committed to his or her personal growth can apply it.”


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