Kelly Strider

People who’ve carried family wounds for years, adults and teenagers wrestling with anxiety or perfectionism, and those who sense their current life no longer fits who they actually are — these are the people Kelly Strider tends to work with best. An LPC based in Beaverton, Oregon, Kelly brings nearly two decades of individual and relational therapy to clients dealing with trauma, mood and depressive disorders, substance issues, abuse, and the particular strain of feeling like you’re running on empty at work — including the kind that follows you home through your phone, where the notifications keep coming long after the workday was supposed to end.

Kelly draws on DBT, motivational interviewing, attachment theory, and parts work, but what ties the approach together is a genuine commitment to dialectical thinking — the practiced ability to hold contradictions without collapsing them. That capacity, Kelly believes, is what allows people to feel more fully, loosen perfectionism’s grip, sustain meaningful change in behavior, and navigate relationships without losing them. Story — how people articulate it to themselves and share it with others — is another thread running through the work.

Kelly is equally attentive to the relational dimension of life: family, friendship, romance, and community. The conviction isn’t that relationships should look any particular way, but that people deserve to build their own constellation of connections on their own terms. Online sessions are available.