About Kelly
Kelly Goodman is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people cope with anxiety, stress, grief, depression, and phobias. She writes plainly and listens closely to each person's concerns. Kelly aims to build practical plans that fit daily life and can be adjusted as people make progress.
She has 17 years as a licensed clinical social worker and decades of broader social work experience in community mental health and public health settings.
Background and approach
Much of her early work involved helping people find housing, apply for benefits, and access medical respite services. Those years shaped her view that basic needs matter for emotional healing. Kelly has worked with people referred by emergency services and now provides mental health and risk assessments in an emergency department.
She has also been an on-call family therapist in an adolescent psychiatric unit and taught peer counseling and chronic pain management classes. That mix of crisis work and education informs her practical approach. Her style blends attachment-based and client-centered ideas with cognitive behavioral and mindfulness tools.
Sessions often focus on clear steps, coping skills, and ways to manage overwhelming moments. She also uses motivational interviewing to help people set manageable goals when change feels hard. Kelly draws on life experience from a large, diverse family, open adoption, caregiving for a loved one with cancer, and long-term involvement in social justice work.
She emphasizes respect, curiosity, and the belief that most people have the capacity to heal with support and usable tools.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how early connections shape current relationships and emotional safety; online sessions can explore patterns and practice new ways of relating. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and reflecting so the person leads the pace; this helps people feel heard while setting goals that matter to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) breaks down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors into small steps and offers concrete tools to try between sessions, which fits well with text check-ins and brief video homework reviews.Figuring out the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Plans can be adjusted over time so strategies match changing needs and real-life demands.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face without travel, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text-based messaging helps keep momentum between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to practice new skills in everyday moments.
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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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