About Kelly
Kelly Goodman is a licensed clinical social worker with 17 years as an LCSW and many more years in social work overall. She listens without judgment and helps people sort through stress, anxiety, grief, depression, bipolar challenges, and ADHD. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at practical steps people can try between sessions.
Kelly spent much of her career in community mental health and public health settings. She worked with programs centered on housing first, intensive case management, and medical respite for people without stable housing.
Background and approach
That work taught her to attend to basic needs first, then focus on emotional healing. She has also worked with frequent callers to emergency services and currently does part-time work in an emergency department doing mental health and risk assessments. She has experience teaching peer counseling and chronic pain management classes, and she has supported people applying for benefits and housing resources.
Trauma across the lifespan is a central focus. Kelly helps people understand how past events shape current feelings and behaviors. She offers tools to manage symptoms, build coping skills, and reconnect with things that matter in life.
Her background includes work with people facing addiction, caregiver stress, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting challenges, and body image or identity questions. Kelly brings life experience from a diverse family, adoption and foster care contexts, and caregiving during serious illness, and she uses that perspective when supporting clients.
Therapeutic approaches and what online therapy looks like
Kelly uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape patterns today; this helps when trust, intimacy, or attachment concerns come up. She also uses client-centered therapy to follow the person's lead, focusing on the issues that matter most to them and creating space for their priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps break down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors into small, doable steps that can reduce anxiety and improve mood.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Kelly will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, and together they decide which methods to try. That makes it easier to adjust the plan if something isn’t helping or if new priorities appear.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions and face-to-face conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text messaging fits people who prefer writing or need flexible timing. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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