Kelly Goodman, LCSW

Kelly Goodman is an LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) with 17 years of licensed practice in Oregon and three decades in social work overall. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, grief, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, addiction, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Kelly also lists blended family issues, parenting, attachment concerns, ADHD, and caregiver stress among areas she addresses.

Her clinical background includes community mental health work using Housing First, intensive case management, and assertive community treatment. She has taught peer counseling and chronic pain management classes and has experience supporting people through homelessness and navigating disability benefits. That work shaped how she thinks about meeting basic needs before expecting people to do deeper therapeutic work.

Kelly currently works part time in an emergency department doing mental health and suicide risk assessments and is on-call as a family therapist in an adolescent psychiatric unit. Those roles inform how she assesses risk, prioritizes safety, and works with practical concerns that come up between visits. She names trauma across the lifespan as a central focus of her work.

In sessions she uses straightforward, people-centered methods. She draws on Attachment-Based approaches, Client-Centered techniques, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to help people learn skills and try new ways of responding to stress. Sessions move at a practical pace with an emphasis on usable tools.

Her life experience includes working with diverse communities, supporting someone through long-term cancer, and family arrangements such as open adoption. She asks potential clients to complete a short matching questionnaire to schedule a first session.