Chelsea Goody, LCPC

I started my career in community mental health - learning how to do therapy in the deep end. I worked with children, adults, families, couples, crisis situations, severe mental illness, schools, homes, clinics and everywhere in between. It taught me how to sit with real people in real pain without pretending healing is neat and linear. That experience shaped the therapist I am today: adaptable, direct, compassionate, and deeply committed to helping people feel less alone in the parts that feel hard.  I value authenticity over perfection, and I believe humor can coexist beautifully with deep emotional work, because honestly, sometimes healing is profound and sometimes it’s realizing you’ve been arguing with your own anxiety like it pays rent.

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Over the years, my work sparked a particular passion for treating OCD and anxiety disorders, areas that are often misunderstood, misdiagnosed, or treated far too casually to actually create change. I specialize in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), an evidence-based treatment that helps people stop organizing their lives around fear and start reclaiming their freedom. ERP is qual parts hard and hopeful work and I love helping clients discover capability and confidence in areas which previously they held doubt.

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My therapy style is collaborative, process-oriented, and real. I believe healing happens through insight, honesty, humor, and bravery. I’m engaged, relational, and invested in helping clients create meaningful change, whether that means facing intrusive thoughts, navigating relationship conflict, improving communication, setting boundaries, or conjuring change in meaningful areas of our life.

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My individual therapy work focuses on helping people untangle the patterns that keep them stuck.  That could include anxiety, OCD, perfectionism, people-pleasing, burnout, relationship issues, shame, emotional avoidance, or the exhausting full-time job managing the "what ifs." I help clients build insight, tolerate uncertainty, improve relationships, and learn how to experience emotions without immediately trying to escape them, intellectualize them, or spiral on Reddit until 2am. 

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I enjoy working with children and adolescents, especially kids struggling with anxiety, OCD, emotional regulation, school-related stress, behavioral challenges, and big feelings in tiny human bodies. Kids are often incredibly insightful and unintentionally hilarious, and I believe therapy with children works best when it feels engaging, safe, collaborative, and genuine. I work closely with parents to help them better understand their child’s emotional world while also reducing accommodation patterns that can unintentionally reinforce anxiety at home. My goal is to help kids feel more confident, capable, and understood while giving caregivers practical tools that actually work in real life for deeply feeling kids.

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I also find it rewarding working with couples and families who feel stuck in the same painful cycles and can’t figure out how they got so far from each other. It's not about assigning a villain and a victim, but in understanding the patterns underneath the conflict, improving communication, rebuilding trust and emotional safety, and helping each person feel seen without turning every disagreement into a war. Relationships are vulnerable work, and I deeply respect those willing to show up honestly for it.

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Whether you’re struggling with OCD, anxiety, relationship challenges, burnout, or patterns that no longer serve you, I’m honored to be considered as part of your healing process.