Chelsey Merchant, LCSW
Licensed in Utah · 5 years in practice
Chelsey Merchant is a licensed clinical social worker with five years of practice in Utah.
License and registration
- LCSW, Utah
- 10068245-3501 · expires September 2026
- NPI
- 1952083651 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 5
- Languages
- English
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About Chelsey
Chelsey Merchant is a licensed clinical social worker with five years of practice in Utah. She focuses on clear, practical steps that help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and struggles with self-esteem and body image. She speaks plainly and meets people where they are without jargon.
Taking a first step can feel hard, and she acknowledges that courage it takes to begin. In sessions she centers the person’s own experience and strengths.
Background and approach
She listens for what matters most and works with clients to set small, achievable goals. Techniques may include looking at unhelpful thinking patterns, building coping skills, and developing awareness of emotions and triggers. Chelsey has a particular interest in trauma and abuse recovery, grief work, and mood disorders.
She also supports people dealing with relationship concerns, intimacy-related issues, and the challenges linked to gender and sexual identity. Additional focus areas include eating and body image concerns, dissociation, and compassion fatigue. Her style blends client-centered care with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.
Narrative and mindfulness approaches are also used to help reframe experiences and calm the nervous system. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with homework or skills practice when that feels useful. She offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
Sessions are provided in English and follow Utah licensing standards as an LCSW.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Chelsey lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Chelsey names
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and mood regulation by teaching concrete skills to test thoughts and try new behaviors.Dialectical behavior therapy emphasizes emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and improving interpersonal effectiveness. It helps people build skills to manage overwhelming emotions and reduce self-harming behaviors or extreme mood shifts.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than sticking to a single method.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction from wherever they are, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for short check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing check-ins or skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to choose formats that match current needs and context.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems can be addressed?
Chelsey works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and self-esteem and body image concerns. She also addresses relationship and intimacy-related issues, bipolar and mood disorders, and related areas listed in her specialties.
What is her therapy style like?
Her approach is client-centered and practical, mixing conversational listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. She uses mindfulness and narrative techniques as well when they fit the client's goals.
How much experience does she have?
She has five years of professional therapy experience working with the concerns noted in her profile.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
She is licensed in Utah as an LCSW, which indicates a clinical social work license in that state.
What languages are supported and can she see clients internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. She is not currently seeing international clients.
Which session formats are available?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit a variety of daily rhythms and needs.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
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