Sharie Kelley, LCSW

Sharie Kelley is an Oregon Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 30 years of clinical experience. She helps adults manage stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, depression, ADHD, relationship and parenting challenges, anger, grief, sleep problems, and career-related concerns. She also works with people facing compassion fatigue and other complex life stresses.

She earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1989 after a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences from Hawaii Pacific College. Much of her early career was in Hawaii where cultural awareness was central to training and practice. That experience influenced how she approaches differences in background and belief.

Her practical style is psychoeducational. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thoughts and actions and to teach concrete skills. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) strategies for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.

Kelley has a long history in crisis intervention and worked overnight covering a county response for seven years. That role involved many high-intensity situations, ranging from emergency rooms to community settings. Earlier roles included outpatient work, dual-diagnosis treatment in a methadone clinic, trauma treatment, and addictions counseling.

She is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for trauma and anxiety treatment. She has also done child and family contract work, adoption social work, and individual therapy for military dependents. Her approach to relationship work emphasizes triggers, communication, and love languages.

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