Chelsea Sheedy

Chelsea Sheedy, LCMHC, aims to help people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or easily angered find clearer ground. She speaks plainly and meets people where they are. She encourages small, useful steps people can try between sessions. Her style is creative and down-to-earth. Chelsea trained first as a board-certified music therapist at the University of Iowa before completing a master’s degree in clinical counseling. She blends clinical counseling with expressive tools like music, writing, and nature-based activities when those methods fit a person's interests. That flexible mix is chosen to make change feel doable rather than threatening. She has eight years of experience supporting people coping with trauma and abuse, depression, anxiety, and addiction. She also helps with anger, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, grief, and life transitions. Her background includes work with survivors of domestic violence and people experiencing complex post-traumatic stress. Therapeutic approaches Chelsea uses include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-focused work, client-centered care, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and EMDR. She adapts these tools to a person's goals, pulling in skills and practices that match strengths and preferences. Chelsea works in Utah and offers sessions in English. She is comfortable supporting LGBTQ+ people and those exploring gender dysphoria or fertility and family-origin concerns. To begin, she asks about what matters most to you and builds a plan you can actually use.

How Chelsea brings therapy tools online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and then commit to small, values-based actions. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and anger when someone wants more purposeful choices rather than simply stopping thoughts. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relationships and how early patterns shape current reactions. It can help people who struggle with intimacy, abandonment fears, or chronic distrust to try new ways of relating. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that helps reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and their emotional charge; Chelsea adapts EMDR work thoughtfully for distance settings when indicated.

Choosing the best approach is part of working together. Chelsea will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they pick methods to try and adjust them as progress is made, keeping the plan practical and grounded in day-to-day life.

If you plan to try online therapy, confirm available session formats before booking since options are not listed here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and let people use expressive tools like music or writing during the session without travel. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework to remote work so therapy stays active and useful.