Kelly Goodman, LCSW

Kelly Goodman is a licensed clinical social worker who offers calm, practical support for people coping with big life stresses. She speaks plainly and works to make therapy feel manageable. Her focus includes anxiety, depression, grief, bipolar disorder, addiction, and parenting challenges. Kelly also helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, ADHD, career stress, and trauma-related difficulties.

Kelly brings 17 years as an LCSW in Oregon to her clinical work. Much of her background is in community mental health and public health settings. She has helped people experiencing housing instability, managed medical respite services, taught chronic pain classes, and supported clients through social service systems.

Her recent roles include part-time work in an emergency department conducting mental health and risk assessments and serving as an on-call family therapist on an adolescent psychiatric unit. Those experiences shaped her focus on practical supports and safety planning alongside longer term healing work. She emphasizes meeting basic needs as a starting point for progress.

In sessions Kelly combines cognitive behavioral techniques with attachment-informed and client-centered methods. She uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing tools to help people notice patterns, reduce distress, and set achievable goals. Conversations are straightforward, with hands-on strategies people can try between sessions.

Kelly draws on personal life experience as well, including caregiving through serious illness, adoption and interracial family life, and advocacy for social justice. That background informs a compassionate, down-to-earth style. She invites people to explore how trauma has shaped them and to build skills for moving forward.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Kelly often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT sessions are practical and goal oriented, which can make them easy to work on during video or phone appointments when homework and skill practice are assigned.

She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps people understand emotional triggers and build healthier ways of relating in everyday life. Client-Centered Therapy is part of her stance too, meaning the conversation is guided by the client's needs and pace rather than a rigid checklist.

Choosing an approach is collaborative. Kelly will talk with each person about their goals and try different strategies until something fits. She encourages feedback and adapts tools and pacing to match what feels most helpful for the individual.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging, which offer flexibility for different routines. Video is useful for interactive skill work and exercises, phone sessions can fit during a work break or when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports quick check-ins or short-term coaching between sessions.