About Chelsea
Chelsea Sheedy is a licensed clinical mental health counselor in Utah with eight years of experience. She works with people facing anxiety, stress, trauma, relationship concerns, and struggles with mood and addiction. Chelsea writes plainly and meets people where they are, helping them take small steps forward.
She uses creative tools when they fit the person. Some sessions may include music, art, writing, or nature-based ideas alongside talking. Chelsea adapts methods to match each person's interests and strengths so therapy feels doable rather than overwhelming.
Background and approach
Chelsea draws on a mix of therapeutic approaches, including acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused work, client-centered listening, dialectical behavior skills, and EMDR when appropriate.
She aims to combine practical skill-building with opportunities to process painful memories at a pace that feels right for each person. <brHer background started in music and music therapy, then expanded into clinical counseling with a master’s degree to add clinical tools. That blend leads to a flexible style that values creativity and evidence-informed methods.
Chelsea pays attention to life context, family patterns, and how past hurts shape today's reactions. Sessions focus on concrete coping skills, improving relationships, managing anxiety, and rebuilding trust after trauma. She also supports people navigating identity questions, parenting stress, addiction recovery, grief, and career transitions.
Chelsea prioritizes clear goals and steady progress tailored to each person's needs.
How Chelsea’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then take values-based actions. It’s useful for anxiety, avoidance, and finding direction in life. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds shape current reactions, which can help with intimacy issues and relationship pain. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions, tolerating distress, and improving communication in relationships.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Chelsea explores a person’s goals, life situation, and preferences and then blends approaches that fit. She checks in regularly and adjusts methods so progress feels steady and aligned with what the client wants.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills work and deeper processing. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, brief skill coaching, or ongoing reflection between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules and to maintain momentum over time.
Questions people ask
What concerns does Chelsea address?
What is her therapy style like?
How much experience does she have?
What are her credentials and where is she based?
Which languages are supported?
What session formats are available?
How does payment and cost work?
How do I begin working with her?
What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.