About Sharie
Sharie Kelley, LCSW, focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, mood shifts, or past trauma. She writes short, practical steps and listens for what matters most to each person. Parents reading on a phone will find clear explanations and straightforward tools rather than long clinical jargon.
She brings 30 years of clinical work in multiple settings to each session. Early in her career she provided child and family services, adoption support, and individual therapy for military dependents.
Background and approach
Later she worked with people facing addiction and trauma in a methadone clinic and as an outpatient therapist in community mental health. Sharie spent more than two decades living and working in Hawaii where cultural awareness shaped her approach. She also spent seven years doing countywide crisis intervention at night, responding to emergencies in hospitals, jails, schools, and public places.
Those experiences taught her to assess risk, prioritize safety, and focus on practical coping skills. Her work draws on cognitive behavioral ideas and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to change unhelpful habits and clarify values. She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for trauma and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotional regulation.
Sessions emphasize education, concrete skills, and building better communication around triggers and relationships. People who choose Sharie can expect a direct, compassionate style that blends teaching with listening. She helps people work through anxiety, addictions, grief, relationship strain, sleep trouble, parenting stress, attention challenges, and other life changes using tools that can be practiced between sessions.
Approaches that guide online care
Sharie commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice difficult thoughts without being controlled by them and take steps toward what matters. She also works with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and change behaviors that keep problems going. For trauma-related symptoms she uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to target distressing memories and reduce their emotional intensity.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy itself. Sharie partners with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Over the first few sessions she will try strategies, get feedback, and adjust the plan so work is practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and exercises that benefit from seeing each other. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow quick check-ins, written exercises, or pacing support between longer sessions. These options aim to make therapy fit into busy schedules and different day-to-day demands.
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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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