Sharie Kelley, LCSW

Sharie Kelley is an Oregon Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 30 years of experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, depression, ADHD, relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, grief, and related issues. She also lists other focuses such as caregiver stress, blended family challenges, and intimacy-related concerns.

She trained at the University of Hawaii at Manoa where her MSW emphasized cultural awareness. She spent more than two decades living and working in Hawaii, and those years shaped her respect for cultural differences in therapy. Early career roles included child and family work, adoption social work, and a private practice serving military dependents and couples.

Sharie has substantial experience in crisis intervention, having covered county-wide crisis response shifts that involved suicidal and psychotic presentations, intoxication, and emotion dysregulation in many settings. She has worked in outpatient community mental health and as a dual-diagnosis therapist in a methadone clinic where she combined trauma treatment with addictions counseling.

Her clinical style is grounded in psychoeducation. She uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and draws on Adlerian principles. She also practices Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for trauma and anxiety and incorporates skills familiar from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy when useful.

Practical concerns such as communication problems, triggers, and love languages come up in her approach. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule an initial session using the site tools. Costs vary with location and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

Therapeutic approaches used in online sessions