About Kelly
Kelly Goodman is an LCSW who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief, depression, and the ups and downs of life. She speaks plainly and listens closely to figure out practical next steps. Her style is warm and grounded, aimed at giving clear tools and steady support.
Goodman brings 17 years as a licensed clinical social worker and three decades in social work roles. Much of her background is in community mental health and public health settings.
How Kelly works
She has experience working with houseless populations, chronic pain management groups, and medical respite programs where basic needs were addressed alongside mental health care. She has also worked with frequent emergency responders and now does part-time mental health and risk assessments in an emergency department.
Goodman serves as an on-call family therapist in an adolescent psychiatric unit and has taught peer counseling classes and case management models such as intensive services and housing-first approaches. Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. In sessions she helps people understand how trauma shows up, build coping skills, and make small, doable changes.
She emphasizes meeting immediate needs before moving into deeper work. Personal experience shapes her perspective: she comes from a large diverse family, has navigated loss and adoption, and has supported loved ones through serious illness. Those life experiences inform her advocacy and focus on social and racial justice.
Goodman invites a conversation to see if her manner and methods fit a person's needs.
Kelly lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Kelly works with
The areas below are the ones Kelly selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oregon |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and sense of safety. It helps people notice patterns in how they connect, and then practice different ways of relating that feel healthier. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers concrete exercises to shift unhelpful thinking and to build coping skills for anxiety, depression, and mood symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals, try approaches that match your needs, and adjust the plan as you learn what helps. That collaborative process means you're not locked into one method if it doesn't fit.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls make it easy to have a fuller conversation when you prefer face-to-face contact. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or you need a simpler check-in. Text and live chat offer brief, flexible ways to touch base between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep care consistent from wherever you are.
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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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