Sharie Kelley, LCSW

Sharie Kelley is an Oregon Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 30 years of practice. She works with adults who are wrestling with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship and family concerns, ADHD, grief, and parenting struggles. Her scope also includes intimacy-related issues, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, career questions, and compassion fatigue.

She uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions. Sharie often draws on cognitive behavioral techniques and client-centered ideas to help people notice patterns and try different responses. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy strategies when emotion regulation or values-based choices are the focus.

Sharie trained at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for her master’s degree in social work and spent over two decades living and working in Hawaii, where cultural context was a routine part of training. Much of her work has been in community settings, outpatient care, and programs addressing addiction and trauma. Her background includes crisis intervention across varied settings and trauma-focused work in a methadone clinic.

She has experience using Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for trauma and anxiety. Earlier in her career she provided child and family services, adoption social work, and individual therapy for military dependents, and she has used mediation-style techniques focused on triggers and communication.

Sharie’s practice reflects years of varied clinical roles and practical approaches. People who want direct, skills-focused sessions that address old family patterns, communication, and coping often seek her out.

How Sharie applies approaches in online sessions