- 30 years experience
- Practical skill focus
- Oregon based
About Sharie
Sharie Kelley is an Oregon Licensed Clinical Social Worker with three decades of experience in mental health care. She helps people facing depression, anxiety, addictions, grief, relationship struggles, and the everyday stress of life. Her manner is direct and practical, with a focus on teaching skills people can use between sessions.
She 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. Those years living and working in Hawaii shaped her respect for cultural differences and added a long-standing emphasis on cultural awareness to her work.
Early in her career she provided child and family therapy, adoption work, and ran a private practice that included military dependents and couples. Later she worked as a dual-diagnosis therapist in a methadone clinic, doing trauma treatment and addictions counseling. She also spent seven years doing county-wide crisis intervention at night, responding to emergencies in many settings.
Her approach is largely psychoeducational and skill-based. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques and draws from client-centered ideas to focus on people’s strengths. She also integrates Dialectical Behavior Therapy strategies, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing when trauma treatment is needed.
Sharie describes her work as practical and collaborative. She aims to help people manage symptoms, learn coping tools, and improve communication and relationships. Prospective clients can expect straightforward talk, skill practice, and a focus on what helps in daily life.
She 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. Those years living and working in Hawaii shaped her respect for cultural differences and added a long-standing emphasis on cultural awareness to her work.
Early in her career she provided child and family therapy, adoption work, and ran a private practice that included military dependents and couples. Later she worked as a dual-diagnosis therapist in a methadone clinic, doing trauma treatment and addictions counseling. She also spent seven years doing county-wide crisis intervention at night, responding to emergencies in many settings.
Her approach is largely psychoeducational and skill-based. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques and draws from client-centered ideas to focus on people’s strengths. She also integrates Dialectical Behavior Therapy strategies, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing when trauma treatment is needed.
Sharie describes her work as practical and collaborative. She aims to help people manage symptoms, learn coping tools, and improve communication and relationships. Prospective clients can expect straightforward talk, skill practice, and a focus on what helps in daily life.
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