Kelly Goodman, LCSW

Licensed in Oregon · 17 years in practice

Kelly Goodman meets people where they are and helps them take practical steps forward.

License and registration

LCSW, Oregon: L3559 · expires December 2027
NPI: 1487782553 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 17
Languages: English

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About Kelly

Kelly Goodman meets people where they are and helps them take practical steps forward. She is a licensed clinical social worker with 17 years in practice as an LCSW. Kelly listens without judgment and focuses on what you most need right now.

Kelly draws on long experience in community mental health and public health. She has worked in housing-first programs, intensive case management, and taught peer counseling. That background shaped a simple belief: people need basic supports before deeper healing can happen.

Background and approach

She has helped people access housing and benefits while offering steady encouragement and advocacy. More recently she has provided crisis and emergency care, including mental health and risk assessments in an emergency department. She has also worked with people frequently referred by ambulance and fire departments.

These roles deepened her understanding of trauma and how it shows up over time. Her approach blends attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. In practice that means she pays attention to relationships and patterns, helps name unhelpful thoughts, and teaches simple tools for stress and mood management.

Kelly’s life experience includes loss, adoption, caregiving for illness, and cross-cultural family ties. She draws on that lived perspective when helping people navigate grief, caregiving stress, relationship strain, addiction, and major life changes. Her goal is to help people build skills, feel steadier, and find more meaning in day-to-day life.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Kelly lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Grief
Bipolar disorder
Depression
Compassion fatigue
Addictions
LGBT
Relationship issues
Family conflicts
Trauma and abuse
Intimacy-related issues
Parenting issues
Self esteem
Career difficulties
Coping with life changes
ADHD
Abandonment
Adoption and foster care
Aging and geriatric issues
Antisocial personality
Attachment issues
Blended family issues
Body image
Cancer
Caregiver issues and stress
Chronic pain, illness, and disability
Co-morbidity
Codependency
Commitment issues
Communication problems
Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
Dissociation
Divorce and separation
Domestic violence
Drug and alcohol addiction
Emptiness
Family of origin issues
Family problems
Fatherhood issues
Fertility issues
First responder issues
Forgiveness
Gender dysphoria
Guilt and shame
HIV / AIDS
Hoarding
Hospice and end-of-life counseling
Immigration issues
Impulsivity
Infidelity
Intellectual disability
Isolation / loneliness
Jealousy
Life purpose
Midlife crisis
Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Money and financial issues
Mood disorders
Multicultural concerns
Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
Panic disorder and panic attacks
Paranoia
Personality disorders
Phobias
Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
Postpartum depression
Post-traumatic stress
Pregnancy and childbirth
Prejudice and discrimination
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Self-harm
Self-love
Sexual assault and abuse
Sexual dysfunction
Sexuality
Social anxiety and phobia
Women's issues
Workplace issues
Young adult issues

Approaches Kelly names

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Online support

Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life

Kelly uses attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape current struggles and to help people recognize patterns in how they relate to others. That approach can be useful for intimacy issues, attachment questions, and long-standing relational patterns.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is helpful for anxiety, depression, and managing mood or stress with clear, practical steps.

Finding the right approach is part of the work itself. Kelly collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She mixes listening and practical exercises so the plan fits what someone wants to change.

Online sessions offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let you have deeper conversations face to face. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or fit a brief check-in during a break at work. These formats help make therapy more accessible and adaptable to day-to-day routines.

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Questions people ask

What kinds of concerns does Kelly address?

She works with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, bipolar disorder, addictions, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, ADHD, and many related concerns.

What is Kelly's therapeutic style like?

Her style combines attentive, client-centered listening with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to help people change patterns and cope better.

How much clinical experience does she have?

Kelly has 17 years as a licensed clinician and many more years in social work roles across community mental health and public health settings.

Where is Kelly based and what credential does she hold?

She practices from Oregon and holds the credential OR LCSW, which indicates she is a licensed clinical social worker in that jurisdiction.

Can I work with her if I'm outside the United States?

Sessions are offered in English and she does not work with international clients at this time.

What session formats are available?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.

How does cost and billing work?

Cost varies depending on location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with Kelly?

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