About Sharie
Sharie Kelley is an Oregon Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 30 years in mental health care. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, depression, and relationship concerns. Her style is straightforward and practical, aimed at people who need clear tools and steady support.
She uses somatic ideas to help people notice how emotions show up in the body and to build grounding skills. She also works with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach coping strategies and shift unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
Her background includes 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 many years working across settings in Hawaii, which deepened her attention to cultural context and personal differences. Early in her career she provided child and family services, adoption work, and independent practice therapy.
She later spent seven years in crisis intervention, responding to a wide range of urgent situations across community settings. She has also worked in outpatient community mental health and in addiction treatment, including trauma-focused work. Sharie uses a psychoeducational approach that emphasizes practical teaching, skill practice, and clearer communication.
She aims to help people identify triggers, set boundaries, and build routines that support emotional balance. Sessions are offered in English from Oregon.
How different approaches and online sessions work together
Somatic work helps people tune into bodily sensations and use grounding and breath techniques to reduce overwhelm; it can be useful for trauma, anxiety, and stress that feel stuck in the body. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions toward them while accepting difficult feelings, which helps with anxiety, depression, and life changes. Client-Centered Therapy creates a nonjudgmental space where the therapist follows the person’s lead and supports self-discovery, which can be helpful for relationship concerns and self-esteem.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, life context, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they tailor techniques and pace to fit needs and preferences rather than following a single method.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, parenting, or mobility limits and let people practice skills between meetings. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach grounding, behavior experiments, values-based actions, and communication skills in real life situations.
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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