About Sharie
Sharie Kelley is an Oregon LCSW with 30 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, relationship strain, parenting stress, and life transitions. Her style is direct and practical, aimed at making day-to-day life easier for people who are worn out or overwhelmed.
Sharie uses clear, skill-based methods so clients learn tools they can use outside sessions. She blends cognitive behavioral techniques with acceptance-focused work and mindfulness.
How Sharie works
She also brings client-centered listening to understand each person's values and goals before suggesting steps forward. Her background includes long experience in crisis intervention, outpatient mental health, and addiction services. That work involved emergency settings, hospitals, residential programs, and community clinics where she managed a wide range of urgent problems.
Those roles shaped her ability to assess risk and to stay calm under pressure. Sharie holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences from Hawaii Pacific College. Her training includes trauma-focused approaches, and she uses eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for people coping with traumatic memories and anxiety.
She aims to be adaptable to culture, age, and belief systems. In sessions she focuses on communication patterns, emotional triggers, and practical skills for coping. Her goal is to help people make steady progress toward clearer thinking, better sleep, healthier relationships, and more manageable days.
Sharie lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Sharie works with
The areas below are the ones Sharie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| 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
Sharie commonly draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing when working online. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is a trauma-focused method that helps people process distressing memories and lower trauma-related symptoms.She also uses client-centered techniques that emphasize listening and collaboration. Figuring out which approach fits best is part of the work. The therapist and client review goals, preferences, and current challenges together and choose steps that feel achievable.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video lets people practice skills and use visual cues. Phone sessions work well when a shorter check-in or lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow ongoing contact between visits and can be useful for brief coaching, tracking progress, or checking in after difficult moments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.
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