Sharie Kelley, LCSW

Sharie Kelley is an Oregon Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 30 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, depression, ADHD, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting strain, and career or life changes. She also addresses compassion fatigue, sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem, and a range of related concerns.

Sharie trained first in Hawaii, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences and a Master of Social Work from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1989. Much of her early work emphasized cultural awareness, and she spent over two decades living and practicing in Hawaii before relocating. Her background includes outpatient community mental health, dual-diagnosis work in a methadone clinic, trauma treatment, and addictions counseling.

She has extensive crisis intervention experience, including seven years covering countywide crisis response across many settings. That work involved assessing and managing high-risk situations such as suicidality, psychosis, intoxication, and severe emotional dysregulation. Earlier in her career she provided child and family services, adoption social work, and individual therapy for military dependents.

Her clinical approach is largely psychoeducational and skills-focused. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques and draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools, Client-Centered Therapy principles, and EMDR for trauma. Sessions often include practical skills training, communication work, and behavioral strategies.

Sharie aims to help people understand patterns that keep problems going and to build concrete skills to change them. To begin, she asks about immediate concerns and daily routines, then prioritizes simple, actionable steps to reduce distress and improve functioning.

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