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Sharie Kelley, LCSW

Based in Oregon Online sessions

Practical support for stressed parents and adults

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Years in practice
30
Credentials
LCSW
Licensed in
Oregon
Languages
English
Focus
Stress, Anxiety
Focus
Addictions
Focus
Trauma and abuse
About

About Sharie

Sharie Kelley is an Oregon-based Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with three decades of clinical experience. She focuses on helping parents and individuals manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, trauma, and the everyday pressures of raising children. Sharie uses plain language and practical tools in sessions so people can try small changes between meetings.

Her work blends several approaches. She often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.

Background and approach

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients clarify values and take meaningful steps even when feelings are hard. She also brings eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for people who need focused trauma work. Sharie trained in Hawaii and earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1989.

Many of her early roles involved crisis work, addiction treatment, and community mental health, which shaped a hands-on style and the ability to handle intense situations calmly. Those years included outreach in emergency rooms, jails, and residential settings. Sessions tend to be psychoeducational and solution-minded.

She pays attention to communication patterns, relationship triggers, and practical skills you can use at home. Her background also includes work with adoption processes, military dependents, and outpatient therapy, which informs a broad view of life stressors. People who want straightforward feedback and step-by-step strategies often find this approach helpful.

Sharie conducts sessions in English and practices from Oregon, bringing a direct, experience-based perspective to parenting and related concerns.

Focus areas and approaches

What Sharie works with

Everything Sharie lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Sharie helps people with.

Approaches Sharie lists

Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.

Online support

Approaches that translate to online care

Sharie uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help identify unhelpful thought patterns and try new behaviors, which can be practiced between online sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is also part of her work and focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small steps toward them even when emotions feel overwhelming. She also provides EMDR for targeted trauma processing when that method fits a person's needs.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist and client talk through goals, preferences, and what feels manageable. From there they choose techniques and pace that fit the person's situation, adapting methods over time if needed.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make therapy more flexible. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work. Live chat or text can be useful for short check-ins, between-session coaching, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help people keep continuity of care while working around busy family schedules and varied daily demands.
Questions

Questions people ask about Sharie

What concerns does Sharie help people with?

She works with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, depression, ADHD, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem, parenting concerns, and related areas.

What is her general therapeutic style?

Her style is practical and psychoeducational, mixing skills training with discussion. Sessions focus on clear tools you can use between meetings.

How long has she been practicing?

Sharie has about 30 years of experience across crisis intervention, addiction work, outpatient therapy, and independent practice.

What credentials and region are listed?

She is an LCSW and practices in Oregon.

Which languages are supported and can she work internationally?

Sessions are offered in English. She is not currently accepting international clients.

What session formats are offered?

Sessions can be held via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.

How does cost and billing work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; services use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire, then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

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