About Sharie
Sharie Kelley is an Oregon-based Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction issues, trauma, and major life changes. She draws on three decades of practice to offer straightforward, practical support. Her style is direct and educational, aimed at helping clients learn tools they can use outside of sessions.
Sharie uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that keep people stuck. She combines those skills with client-centered listening to make sure each person feels heard.
Background and approach
For trauma and intense memories she uses eye movement desensitization and reprocessing to reduce emotional distress. Her background includes long work in crisis intervention, outpatient care, and addiction treatment. That variety shaped a calm approach to high-stress situations and complex problems.
She has experience with grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, work stress, and compassion fatigue. Sharie earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences from Hawaii Pacific College. She spent over twenty years living and working in Hawaii, where cultural awareness was central to her training and practice.
Sessions are conversational and skills-focused. Sharie aims to teach practical strategies for coping, communication, and emotional regulation. Over time she helps people build routines that reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.
Her work combines life experience, crisis knowledge, and evidence-informed approaches to support people facing depression, ADHD, relationship concerns, sleep problems, and many other issues. The focus is on clear steps forward, not jargon.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking meaningful action even when difficult emotions are present. It helps people who feel stuck by teaching them to accept inner experiences and commit to small, value-driven steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to change patterns that increase anxiety or depression. It is useful for stress, mood struggles, and many everyday problems. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a trauma-focused approach used to reduce the emotional intensity of painful memories and related anxiety through guided processing.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sharie will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, comfort level, and life circumstances. She mixes listening with teaching so clients can try strategies and give feedback about what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility and different ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller interaction is helpful. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support ongoing reflection and quick coaching between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and travel schedules while using approaches like ACT, CBT, and EMDR.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English