Kelly Goodman, LCSW

Kelly Goodman is a licensed clinical social worker with 17 years as an LCSW and three decades working in social services. She offers a calm, direct approach for people struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, sexual and intimacy concerns, and other life disruptions. Kelly aims to meet people where they are and help them take the next practical step.

Her background includes community mental health work using Housing First, intensive case management, and assertive community treatment models. She has also taught peer counseling and chronic pain management classes and worked in public health and federally qualified health clinics for people experiencing houselessness. Those roles shaped her focus on ensuring basic needs are addressed before deeper therapeutic work begins.

Kelly has provided advocacy and hands-on supports such as helping clients apply for social security benefits and securing medical respite beds. She has experience working with frequent emergency services users and currently does part-time mental health and risk assessments in an emergency department. She also serves as an on-call family therapist in an adolescent psychiatric unit.

Over the years she has watched how trauma affects people across the lifespan and she uses that knowledge to help clients understand their reactions. Her style blends practical skills, compassionate listening, and clear feedback so people can build tools that fit their lives.

Kelly draws on life experience from a large, diverse family, adoption and interracial marriage in her personal life, and long-term caregiving for someone with cancer. She welcomes a conversation to see if her approach fits a prospective client's needs.

Therapeutic approaches and how they help online

Kelly uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This work helps people who struggle with trust, closeness, or repeated relationship problems understand why they react as they do and try new ways of relating.

She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and practical coping with life changes.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kelly collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences and adjusts the plan as progress or obstacles appear.

Confirm current session options before booking since formats were not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so clients can attend from a convenient location. Therapists can also mix strategies from different approaches so the work stays practical and focused on everyday improvements.