Sharie Kelley
Compassionate, practical therapy for everyday struggles
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Sharie
Sharie Kelley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with three decades of experience. She focuses on helping people who struggle with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, depression, ADHD, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, parenting challenges, sleep problems, anger, and self-esteem. Sharie aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for someone juggling busy days and worried nights.
Her way of working is practical and skills-focused. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance-based ideas to help people manage thoughts and reactions.
Background and approach
She also uses EMDR for trauma and anxiety when that approach fits a person's needs. Sharie trained in Hawaii and earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1989. She spent many years in crisis intervention, responding to emergencies in hospitals, jails, police stations, and the community.
That work built her ability to stay calm under pressure and prioritize safety. Earlier roles included outpatient therapy, dual-diagnosis work in a methadone clinic, adoption social work, and a independent practice doing individual and couples counseling. Those settings gave her hands-on experience with addiction, trauma, and relationship patterns.
In sessions she uses clear teaching, practical tools, and a focus on communication and triggers. Sharie aims to help people find steady steps forward, whether they are coping with life changes, caregiving stress, or recurring patterns that keep causing pain.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Sharie uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that maintain distress. CBT is practical and goal-oriented, and it often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and stress.She also works with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on clarifying values and taking committed steps even when difficult feelings are present. ACT can be useful when someone wants to live by their priorities despite ongoing anxiety or low mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client talk about goals, try methods that fit the person, and adjust as needed. That collaborative process helps shape which techniques are used in sessions.
Online therapy offers several ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options let people keep therapy in a busy week, follow up between sessions, or choose a format that feels comfortable. For many, remote sessions make it easier to stick with the work and practice skills in daily life.
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.
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.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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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