Kelly Goodman, LCSW

Kelly Goodman, Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Oregon, has 17 years of experience as a licensed clinician. She works with stress, anxiety, grief, bipolar disorder, depression, compassion fatigue, addictions, LGBT concerns, relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, parenting, self esteem, career questions, life changes, and ADHD. She describes her approach as helping people understand how trauma affects them and offering practical tools and support.

Goodman spent much of her career in community mental health. She worked with Housing First programs, intensive case management, and assertive community treatment. She taught peer counseling and led chronic pain management classes. She also worked in a Federally Qualified Health Clinic serving people experiencing houselessness and managed medical respite beds.

In that work she focused on meeting basic needs first. She helped people get housed and apply for benefits when those steps were necessary before therapy could move forward. Later roles included supporting frequent users of emergency services and providing mental health and risk assessments in an emergency department.

She currently works part time in an emergency department and serves as an on-call family therapist in an adolescent psychiatric unit. Along the way she has learned about trauma across the lifespan and developed an interest in helping people recognize its impacts and build coping skills.

Goodman also draws on life experience from a large diverse family, adoption, interracial marriage, caregiving for someone with long-term cancer, travel, and engagement with social and racial justice issues. She describes therapy as a place for guidance and practical support to help people heal and better enjoy life.

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