Chelsea Sheedy
Compassionate, creative support for families and parents
- Credentials
- LCMHC
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- Utah
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Chelsea
Chelsea Sheedy is a licensed clinical mental health counselor who works with families and parents facing stress, parenting challenges, relationship struggles, and mood or anxiety concerns. She approaches sessions with a straightforward, compassionate manner that aims to make therapy feel usable and relevant for everyday life.
Parents and caregivers often seek her out when they need practical tools and calmer ways to handle difficult moments at home. Chelsea draws on a mix of clinical methods rather than a single technique.
Background and approach
She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice their values and act on them, Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for trauma processing when appropriate. She also brings attachment-based ideas into the work to help family bonds feel safer and more connected.
Chelsea trained first as a board certified music therapist at the University of Iowa and later earned a master’s degree in clinical counseling. Her earlier music background sometimes shows up in creative activities like writing, art, or nature-based tasks she offers during sessions. She adapts methods to match each person’s interests and strengths.
She has eight years of clinical experience and holds the credential LCMHC, listed as UT LCMHC 9662316-6004. Chelsea practices from Utah and provides services in English. She is open to working with international clients as well.
Therapy sessions may include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. The cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Online approaches that fit family and trauma work
Chelsea often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters most and take small actions toward those values. ACT is practical for parents handling stress, life transitions, and ongoing anxiety.She also employs Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for processing trauma memories when appropriate. EMDR focuses on reducing the intensity of traumatic memories and the reactions tied to them, which can help survivors of abuse or complex trauma move forward.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Chelsea will collaborate with clients to choose methods that match their goals, comfort level, and the family context. She adapts techniques to each person and checks in regularly to see what is helping.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy families and people living in different places. Sessions can happen by video call or phone, and shorter check-ins can be done through live chat or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit support into parenting schedules, travel, or work demands while keeping the focus on useful skills and steady progress.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
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