About Kelly
Kelly Goodman is a licensed clinical social worker who offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, grief, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She writes plainly and listens first. Sessions focus on making small, useful shifts that help daily life feel steadier.
Kelly has 17 years as a licensed social worker and more than 30 years of overall social work experience. She has worked in community mental health, public health, and hospital settings.
Background and approach
That background shaped a hands-on approach that combines listening with problem-solving. In practice she helps people get basic needs met so they can focus on healing. Kelly has experience assisting people with housing, benefits, chronic pain, and medical respite.
She also has worked with people referred by emergency services and currently provides mental health and suicide risk assessments in an emergency department. Her style mixes attachment-focused work, client-centered listening, and cognitive-behavioral ideas. She uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing tools to help people notice patterns and try small changes.
Sessions aim to be straightforward and respectful of each person’s pace. Kelly’s life experience includes adoption, caregiving for a loved one with cancer, inter-racial family life, and engagement with social justice issues. She draws on those perspectives when supporting people through loss, trauma, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and identity questions.
People who come to Kelly often want practical ways to cope and clearer next steps. She invites potential clients to connect and see whether her approach fits their goals and needs.
How Kelly’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people understand early relationship patterns and how those patterns affect current connections and trust. It can be useful for people who notice repeated problems in relationships or who want to understand emotional reactions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and following the person’s pace. This approach gives people space to set the agenda and name what matters most, which can be helpful for stress, grief, and identity concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions keep problems going and introduces practical experiments to try different responses. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and building coping skills. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Kelly will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and try methods that fit their life. Together they will check what helps and adjust the plan over time. Online sessions offer flexibility and different ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short updates, brief coaching, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, caregiving, or travel schedules.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English