About Sharie
Sharie Kelley is an Oregon Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with thirty years in the helping professions. She focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and anxiety and address related concerns like depression, addictions, grief, and relationship problems. Her manner is straightforward and educational, aimed at helping people learn tools they can use between sessions.
She studied social sciences in Hawaii and earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1989.
Background and approach
Much of her early career was in Hawaii, where training emphasized cultural awareness and shaped a respect for diverse backgrounds. That perspective informs how she listens and responds now in Oregon. Sharie has broad clinical experience.
Her work has included crisis intervention, outpatient therapy, and dual-diagnosis treatment in a methadone clinic. She has supported people facing suicidality, psychosis, substance use, and emotion dysregulation across many settings and situations. Her approach blends practical therapies such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with client-centered elements and acceptance and commitment ideas.
She also uses dialectical strategies and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for trauma and anxiety when appropriate. Sessions are often focused on skills, communication, and reducing day-to-day distress. Sharie aims to help people manage life changes, parenting strains, sleep problems, ADHD and work stress.
She emphasizes clear communication, identifying triggers, and building coping skills so people feel steadier between sessions.
How therapeutic approaches adapt to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and focus on actions that matter. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and making behavior changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down unhelpful thoughts and teaches practical coping skills to change feelings and behavior; it often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and anger. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that works with distressing memories and anxiety symptoms using bilateral stimulation alongside guided processing.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review concerns, goals, and preferences and recommend techniques that fit the client's needs. Clients and the therapist adjust methods over time based on what is helping.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls support face-to-face conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for ongoing support, brief coaching between sessions, and easier scheduling around work or caretaking. These formats make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while managing a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- 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
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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