Kelly Goodman

Kelly Goodman is a licensed clinical social worker with 17 years as an LCSW and three decades in social work overall. She speaks plain, practical support to people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, bipolar symptoms, addiction, or caregiver strain. Kelly centers respect and steady presence in sessions while helping people find tools that make daily life easier.

Her background includes long experience in community mental health and public health settings. She has worked with housing-first programs, intensive case management, and federally qualified health clinics that served people without stable housing. Kelly has taught chronic pain management and peer counseling classes, and she has helped people apply for benefits and find housing when basic needs stood in the way of healing.

More recently she has done work with frequent emergency responders’ referrals and currently does part-time work in an emergency department doing mental health and risk assessments. She also serves as an on-call family therapist in an adolescent psychiatric unit. These roles shaped her approach to trauma and crisis-informed care across the lifespan.

In sessions she draws from attachment-based, client-centered, cognitive behavioral, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing ideas. She focuses on practical skills, clearer communication, and steady problem solving rather than jargon. Her approach emphasizes understanding how early relationships and life events shape current patterns.

Kelly’s life experience includes caregiving for a loved one with cancer, open adoption, interracial family life, and advocacy on social justice issues. She invites people to talk about what matters, try new strategies, and find ways to feel a bit more in control of their days.

How her therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Kelly often uses attachment-based ideas to help people see how early relationships shape present patterns; this approach looks at connection and trust and is useful for improving communication and emotional safety. Client-centered work means sessions start with listening to what matters most to the person and following their pace, which helps people feel heard and set their own goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors, giving concrete steps for managing anxiety, mood, and stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels doable. Decisions about which methods to use are collaborative and can shift as needs change.

Specific session formats are not listed here, so please confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit care into busy schedules, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when a full in-person visit is hard to arrange. It also supports continuing regular work when life or health issues make travel difficult, while letting therapists use mindfulness and CBT tools in practical, everyday ways.