About Chelsey
Chelsey Merchant is a licensed clinical social worker with five years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and body-image concerns. She works in Utah and holds the credential LCSW, which stands for licensed clinical social worker. Chelsey focuses on practical, person-centered care that starts with listening and understanding each person's story.
Chelsey believes clients know their own lives best and uses that knowledge as a starting point.
How Chelsey works
Sessions are collaborative and grounded in real goals. She helps people name what feels hard, try new ways of coping, and build on strengths they already have. Her practice includes support for relationship and intimacy-related issues, LGBT and gender dysphoria concerns, grief, and career stress.
Chelsey also works with people facing mood disorders, bipolar symptoms, post-traumatic stress, seasonal mood changes, and compassion fatigue. She is attentive to eating and body-image struggles, dissociation, self-harm thoughts, and issues connected to alternative sex culture and kink. In session she draws from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral approaches, dialectical behavior ideas, mindfulness, and narrative work.
That mix lets her tailor practical tools and reflective conversation to each person's needs. Chelsey aims to make therapy straightforward and useful. She encourages small steps and realistic plans.
New clients typically start by describing one or two problems to focus on. From there Chelsey and each person map out doable strategies to try between sessions.
Chelsey lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Chelsey works with
The areas below are the ones Chelsey selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Utah |
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Online support options
Approach-focused online therapy that fits your life
Client-centered therapy puts your experience at the center of sessions. The therapist listens closely and reflects what matters to you, then helps you set goals based on your priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with you about your goals, try different techniques, and recommend what seems most helpful. This is a collaborative process that adjusts as your needs and preferences change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let you meet face to face when a deeper conversation is needed. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging provide quick ways to share updates or get brief coaching between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or school schedules while still getting consistent support.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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