Kelly Goodman, LCSW

Kelly Goodman is an LCSW who brings 17 years of licensed practice to conversations about stress, grief, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, facing medical or caregiving strain, navigating identity and relationship questions, or coping with aging and geriatric issues. Her tone is straightforward and grounding, aimed at helping people take one step at a time.

She spent much of her career in community mental health and public health settings. That work included housing-first programs, intensive case management, and teaching peer counseling. She also taught chronic pain management and managed medical respite beds for people without stable housing.

Kelly has experience providing crisis assessments in an emergency department and working on an adolescent psychiatric unit. Those roles deepened her understanding of how trauma affects people across the lifespan. She uses that perspective to help people make sense of symptoms and shifts in relationships and mood.

In sessions she blends practical tools and steady support. Expect problem-focused coping skills, attention to attachment and relationships, and mindfulness-based practices to reduce distress. Motivational interviewing techniques are used when people want to make changes but feel stuck.

Her background includes personal experience with loss, caregiving for a loved one with long-term cancer, adoption, and cross-cultural family life. Those experiences inform a compassionate, nonjudgmental approach that centers each person’s lived reality.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Kelly uses attachment-based work to look at how relationship patterns affect feelings and behavior; this helps people untangle repeated conflicts and build clearer expectations with others. She also uses client-centered therapy to create a steady, accepting space where a person can talk through hard topics and find their own direction. Cognitive behavioral therapy, when used, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and tests them with small behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety and depression.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Kelly will listen to your goals, try a few methods, and adjust what she offers based on what feels most helpful. Clients and the therapist work together to shape sessions around real-life needs and daily routines.

Session formats are not specified here, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit counseling into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules demand. It also makes it simpler to continue care during life changes or when mobility or caregiving responsibilities make in-person visits difficult.